Perhaps the most obscure book I have read.
Focusing around the character Esther Greenwood, a troubled young woman looking for her place in the world, she has acquired a place at a college to do a scholarship away from home, and begins it well, enjoying herself and seeing her almost-boyfriend, however this falls through when she becomes depressed and attempts suicide so therefore is taken away to a mental institute after living at home with her mother for some time.
The ending is ambiguous, as the novel closes on the review of Esther's state of mind and the decision regarding whether she will be released from the hospital.
The book contains themes of virginity, mental illness, depression, suicide, writing as a profession, romance, friendship, family and love. So it covers a lot and lots of people of all walks of life can identify with Esther. It moved me, I cried with Esther, knowing some of her personality and experiences were Plath's too, as this is a semi-autobiographical account of Plath's life. I recommend this book. Highly. Every girl should read it. Every human, actually.
A girl's analytical review of the novel.
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