The title of the bell jar gives the reader the point of view of being much like how being behind a bell jar the images viewed behind the glass is distorted, muddled, nothings able to get in or out creating a stifling atmosphere. Giving us an inside look at the view her depression cast on her
) Plot:
Development/kinds: stream of consciousness
With the bell jar a book speaking from the point of view of being trapped inside one it would make sense to have the story follow her consciousness, tracking just when her decent into madness began.
D) Conflicts:
Dominant (man vs. self) in the novel Esther’s inability to conform to the social standards that were common for women parried with the constant feelings of naivety, inadequacy, and uncertainty
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From then on it’s a constant battle between her weakening psyche and her want to live.
Static: Jody
Jody’s character while still having some differences from our main character, in a lot of ways is just like our main character acting as a living mirror for Esther and ourselves to analyze.
Flat: buddy
Buddy never goes through any substantial growth in his character though out the whole novel. Buddy’s character can be described as self-centered, with a over inflated ego, who makes Esther feel idiotic and – with his so called superiority, his only redeeming quality shown towards the end as he feels guilty and worries over Joan and Esther’s depressions.
Stereotyped: Lenny
His character plays on the Texan stereotype, Even his appearance is made to reinforce this, his house described to look like a ranch from the inside, his bar made to look like a horseshoe complete with bear rugs and random parts of animals hanging across the wall, while blasting country