The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Poetry red-cheeked young novice Alyosha

red-cheeked young novice Alyosha

Bri’s got big shoes to fill

and what we can do to abate the hidden sources of stress that burden our days

She's his diamond in the rough

and wonderfully creative

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Poetry red-cheeked young novice AlyoshaThe 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