The Bell Jar Reviews:
1/I can’t believe that I was today years old when I finally read the bell jar. Where have I been all my life? As someone who has battled depression, this book spoke to me like few others. Highly recommended.
2/I probably should have read The Bell Jar decades ago. The book–which was well-written and very readable–struck me as being memorable, yet very sad. I suspect that The Bell Jar would have a more powerful impact on younger readers.
3/First off, I read this basically at gunpoint because I would fail a large portion of my literature class if I didn’t study it. Is that Sylvia Plath’s fault? No, but I do blame her for putting this out there. Somehow, in America, once you become a sacred feminist poet, that’s all you need to do. She was down at Brown, and in that, I just mean she was assured a place in our lives long ago simply because the poets of the day saw her as what she was in the day, enlightened. But that isn’t TOday…it’s so difficult to peel back the layers of her racism, inherant or not, and I find her prose jarring, but not in a “shake you up” kind of way, just poorly timed. It bothers me that people I admire are moved by this piece. I think it is self-absorbed drivel. Sorry, but I just do.
