The Bell Jar

In the novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the novel is set in America in the 1950s. The settings in the novel are often used as backdrops where Sylvia develops her critics. The protagonist Esther Greenwood¡¦s experience in different places serves as critics of the idea that each place represents. The settings of the novel include metropolitan New York, suburban Boston and mental institutions. The novel began with Esther¡¦s visit to New …

…s narratives of these institutions highlights that: ¡§It was completely dark¡K..a cool wind rushes by¡K¡¨ ¡§The Psychiatric Ward at the hospital¡K.alcove of beds¡K.a little area with a table and a few seats¡K¡¨ Sylvia Plath used Esther¡¦s experience in the different settings of the novel as critics for these places. The ideas of the novel are rather feministic and critical in many ways of the 1950s¡¦ society.