Download or read book Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summer internship at a fashion magazine in New York City reveals only the lack of beauty in the young woman's inner life, as Esther Greenwood succumbs to a pervasive depression that she likens to being trapped beneath the title object, a bell jar, struggling for her next breath.