Drew’s Reviews > The Bell Jar > Status Update

220. I wondered if all women did with other women was lie and hug.

…my mind slipped from the noose of thought and swung, like a bird, in the center of empty thought.

161. The flowers nodded like bright, knowledgeable children as I trundled them down the hall.

Was expecting an intense detailing of claustrophobic madness. Hoping for it. So, a bit disappointed.

A bit fluffier than I’d hoped. Always thought this book would be weird and intense and dense. Still, I like it in the way I like Mysteries of Pittsburgh and catcher in the rye and to kill a mockingbird.

Still hoping one of the characters, hopefully a male, will turn out more interesting. All the dudes are dolts, which I get it from a female perspective in the early sixties, but still wish her ideas challenged.