Cela Burt’s Reviews > The Bell Jar > Status Update

Listening to the audiobook again. It’s very good. Maggie Gyllenhaal on Spotify.

I’m really enjoying it and can clearly see why it remains a favourite in the feminist literature genre. What I have found particularly interesting is Plath’s unknown attention to the Madonna- whore complex. This is when, in particular a man, cannot see himself sleeping with or having sex with a woman he truly loves, he sees her as pure, not something that he can put his extremity in. Truly messed up.