Everyone's life is filled with unique experiences, either positive or negative. It is often helpful to express those experiences and thoughts through writing. Sylvia Plath, a famous novelist, has adapted this method of expressing her thoughts and feelings. She gives life to her character by reflecting her own personal happy and unfortunate life experiences. In the novel, The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, the main character's, Ester Greenwood's, lifestyle and personal situations, such as her …
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…her to reach the stage of depression and, eventually, suicide. She lived a very short life. Her disappointments and loneliness affected her mentally, providing her with no other way to express her feelings and anger other than through her characters. Therefore, she used character such as Ester Greenwood in the novel, The Bell Jar, to express her the most disappointing moments of her life and finally be able to open her heart to the readers.