March+2010

The Bell Jar By Sylvia Plath Synopsis The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with...  ** The Bell Jar By Sylvia Plath ** Synopsis The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a magazine, her increasingly strained relationships with her mother and the boy she dated in college, and eventually, devastatingly, into the madness itself. The reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is rare in any novel. It points to the fact that The Bell Jar is a largely autobiographical work about Plath's own summer of 1953, when she was a guest editor at Mademoiselle and went through a breakdown. It reveals so much about the sources of Sylvia Plath's own tragedy that its publication was considered a landmark in literature. Time "By turns funny, harrowing, crude, ardent and artless. Its most notable quality is an astonishing immediacy, like a series of snapshots taken at high noon."



Buffalo Chicken Mac 'n' Cheese-- Jill (plus some other stuff I haven't decided on yet) Meatloaf Sliders--Meg New York style cheesecake-Colleen Something cheap (I'm already broke)--Matt Oreo Truffles- LVL--- I am going to atempt to make these I am thinking Avacados...caviar???? Chick Pea Salad - Beth South-of-the-boarder cheese spread and crackers -- Mary Hazelnut and Raspberry tarts - Kristen bruschetta (sp?) kreeem From 85 N take Hillandale Rd Take right off of exit Hillandale will dead end into Rose of Sharon Rd Take left onto Rose of Sharon about 1/4 mile, take right onto Marywood Dr. Jill's house is 9th on left 3049 Marywood Dr. 620-8573
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"How did I know that someday-at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere-the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?"