bell jar critics

Question 1

AL SMITH - you have this…

Answer 1

…legacy of parents who passed on a poisoned chalice and a society that has passed on a poisoned chalice

Question 2

LINDA WAGNER - it is amongst…

Answer 2

…women that Esther finds ardent defenders of marriage, chastity and domesticity.

Question 3

CHARLOTTE AHLIN - Plath is showing…

Answer 3

…us a woman who is in great pain.

Question 4

BETTY FRIEDAN - Women were told…

Answer 4

…they had no greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity in the 1950s.

Question 5

ALICE MILLER - We can learn…

Answer 5

…what suicide really is: the only possible way to express the true self, at the expense of life.

Question 6

TIM KENDALL - It is evident…

Answer 6

…that sickness is located not just in Esther, but in her society.

Question 7

HANNAH MARCARIAN - Plath “contemplates…

Answer 7

…suicide as if she thinks it wouldn’t bother the reader.”

Question 8

DELAURANTIS - Her ‘madness’…

Answer 8

…is presented as a necessary consequence of the world surrounding her.