With her depression she had a constant search to find herself. As written in “The Bell Jar”, in Sylvia Plath’s book The Bell Jar her main character Esther is constantly searching for her identity through the novel which put pressure on her to become something greater. Esther ends up losing her sanity because she searches so much which leads her to her depression. (The Bell Jar, 30). Sylvia Plath uses Esther in her writing to show what she went through as a way to deal with her depression. As Helene Henderson writes, The Bell Jar is about a college student in New York who got everything handed to her. The main character Esther lives a good life until she goes to college and gets rejected by Harvard. Esther eventually is led to be put in an asylum after her attempt at suicide due to all of her failures. Her failures include her dropping out of college because of an overwhelming amount of pressure and activities (“Sylvia Plath”, 167-168). In her poem “Daddy” it is totally dedicated to her father. In it she writes “Daddy, I have had to kill
With her depression she had a constant search to find herself. As written in “The Bell Jar”, in Sylvia Plath’s book The Bell Jar her main character Esther is constantly searching for her identity through the novel which put pressure on her to become something greater. Esther ends up losing her sanity because she searches so much which leads her to her depression. (The Bell Jar, 30). Sylvia Plath uses Esther in her writing to show what she went through as a way to deal with her depression. As Helene Henderson writes, The Bell Jar is about a college student in New York who got everything handed to her. The main character Esther lives a good life until she goes to college and gets rejected by Harvard. Esther eventually is led to be put in an asylum after her attempt at suicide due to all of her failures. Her failures include her dropping out of college because of an overwhelming amount of pressure and activities (“Sylvia Plath”, 167-168). In her poem “Daddy” it is totally dedicated to her father. In it she writes “Daddy, I have had to kill