Family In The Bell Jar

In the book “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath the theme is family before anything. Family is the most meaningful concept on earth. Your family cares, loves, and protects. Without your family you would be nowhere. Having your family will help get past your troubles, support, and help succeed in the future. First, in the beginning of the book, Esther did not have a connection with her family. “My own mother wasn’t much help” (39). Esther’s mother was callous on her. Her mother had to take care of 2 kids without any money left from her husband. Consequently, Esther had to work adamantine and assist for her family. By doing that, Esther could not take it anymore and decided to move to New York away from her family. Next, after Esther moved and had anxiety in New York she decided to spend the summer back home. When she got home, Esther did not get into the writing program. She decided to write her own novel, but she had some difficulty along the way. Additionally, when her …show more content…
Likewise, she had trouble sleeping, she took bountiful sleeping pills and started to become very aggressive.
“ ‘They want you to be in a special ward, my mother said’ ” (175). The ward would be a place where Esther could recover. But, Esther did not want to go. “That morning I had tried to hang myself” (158). Of course, Esther felt that she was being punished, so she decided multiple times to kill herself.
Lastly, when Esther went to the ward she had trouble adjusting to it at first. Later on, Esther met some new people and learned a lot. Perusing this further, Esther was given shock treatments and was frightened. After her shock treatments were done Esther was almost done recovering. As a matter of fact, Esther had only one thing to do before she was free. It was to have one last interview that will decide where she will go next. Correspondingly, Esther realized that her family sent her away not to punish her, but to save