In the novel, The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, the main character tells the readers the story of her life as she deceives others by hiding who she truly is from them. However, Esther’s “lies” make her more trustworthy because she admits to the readers that she is shocked with the truthfulness of her statement. When Jay Cee pulls her aside and asks her what she plans on doing with her life, Esther, as usual, responds with very one-sided answers containing a “hollow flatness” (Chapter 3, pg. 32). Then, without thinking, Esther goes on a tangent about how she believed that she would get a scholarship to study in Europe and then become a professor, admitting that she usually “had these plans on the tip of [her] tongue” (Chapter 3 pg. 32). She does