Sylvia Plath is a novelist and a short story writer but she is most known for her poems. Some of her most famous poems are “Daddy”, “Morning Song”, and “The Applicant”. The poem “The Applicant” is about someone trying to sell a women to a man by making her seem as if she can do anything for him and it’s the man’s last resort. This poem can be looked at from a biographical, feminist, formalist, or psychoanalytic lens. Through a biographical lens you can see that “The Applicant” shows how Sylvia Plath feels about being a women and that it also reflects her relationship with her husband.
Plath and her husband had an unhappy marriage and he was known to have lovers, and through the poem “The Applicant” Plath expressed how she felt about that.
Plath and her husband had an unhappy marriage and he was known to have lovers, and through the poem “The Applicant” Plath expressed how she felt about that.