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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Poetry A glimpse of the livesThe Bell Jar chronicles the crack up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's 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