The Bell Jar Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 15 Summary

Chapter 15 Summary

Philomena Guinea, who had provided Esther's college scholarship, has read about her suicide attempt in a Boston newspaper. She arrives to remove Esther from the hospital and places her in a private treatment facility of her own choosing, with a golf course, grounds and gardens like a country club. Mrs. Guinea will pay for her treatment.

Esther knows that she should be grateful, but she is unable to feel anything. "If Mrs. Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, . . . I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."

She has her own room and once the orderlies have settled her in, she gets up and explores. There seem to be no nurses or guards around, only people working in the kitchen preparing dinner and some...
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