Asra Ghouse’s Reviews > The Bell Jar > Status Update

Esther's mother getting her flowers for her birthday--Esther throwing them in the dustbin--Esther telling her doctor that she hates her mother... How desperately sad she must be, the reader wonders.

And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard's kitchen mat.

Sylvia Plath's work is like an addiction!