The Bell Jar Study Guide consists of approx. 79 pages of summaries and analysis on The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Browse the literature study guide below:
It's the summer the Rosenbergs were electrocuted and the narrator of this story is in New York City. She can't get the Rosenbergs out of her mind and thinks a lot about what it must be like to be electrocuted. Worse, the narrator doesn't like New York. She is from New England and this is her first time in the big city. She and 11 other girls have won a fashion magazine contest. They wrote essays, stories, poems and fashion blurbs to compete for jobs in New York, for a month with all expenses paid and many free bonuses like hair styling at expensive salons. They are meeting successful people in their own fields. (
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