Olly is always write

           The Bell Jar is a staple in our modern understanding of mental health. TV shows, books, movies, and conversations often reference the novel but entirely miss its depth. The nature of Sylvia Plath’s life, and especially her death, have created an air of stigma and apprehension around her work. Often, readers seem to either handle the weight of the novel’s origin either by separating the author and the work, or by exaggerating the relationship. Although it is enriching to analyze The Bell Jar apart from the life of Sylvia Plath, it is entirely impossible to completely understand the value in the novel without seeing the deepest heartbreak of the story. It is now known after Plath’s death that she had once intended to publish a second novel detailing a more grown-up Esther in a phase of “health”. Of course this second novel was never completed because Plath went on to die by suicide before she could write it. What I mean to say is that there must ...