She wakes up in a mental hospital, in dismay to find that she failed in her attempt. Mrs. Guinea, Esther's patron for her fashion job, pays for her hospital bills. Instead of being grateful, Esther feels consumed by her depression and illness and says, " ?wherever I sat? I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air"(185)...
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This shows that Esther's illness acts as a bell jar and traps her in stale a stale world that she cannot escape. She feels that the "bell jar" constrains her, like her illness, rendering her unable to break free. Esther parallels a bell jar. Esther has always felt different due to her emptiness lack of emotion...
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The bell jar For instance when Esther feels down she takes long, hot baths for hours. After one particular bath she said that she felt pure and sweet as a new baby...	2 / 323
bell jar She also doesn't seem to "need" Buddy, and really has no trouble dismissing him from her life, even though he is a promise of stability and security for her if she chooses to marry him...	2 / 286
The Bell Jar I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.` She claims that she has `always wanted to learn German` although `the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam`...	5 / 1125
the bell jar Sylvia Plath was introducing to the reader the idea that many girls even tough they seem happy, really are not. She was showing how such little things build up inside a girls head and drive her to irrational behavior...	4 / 921