n’s Reviews > The Bell Jar > Status Update

this shit is making me feel like im planning my own suicide while high, great time when you’re suicidal yourself but probably not so fun to people who don’t really get it

starting to grow uncomfortably erratic at times

find the idea of someone so clear about men’s role in women’s lives and the absurdity of marriage to still get married and let that marriage ruin them entire just… horrible. poor girl

the scene where they watch the birth of the child? terrific.

i get why people say this is a companion piece to catcher in the rye

quite strange, how the entire narrative begins within its first sentence with a sense of death and it just keeps and keeps on going. electrocutions, cadavers, sweltering, rotting heat, debilitation, doreen looking white as a ghost or a corpse, babies in jars… a couple pages in and one has more references to death than life