As she listens to him, she thinks, "What did I think was wrong? He made it sound as if nothing was really wrong only what I thought was wrong." (Plath 106). This statement shows how she views people who question her sanity.
When Esther speaks to others, it reinforces her insanity and distaste for people. While Esther is in the hospital, after trying to kill herself, she dislikes the nurses and the way they poke and prod her all day. Fed up, one day she breaks a tray of thermometers. .
" "I"m sorry," I said. "It was an accident." The second nurse fixed me with a baleful eye. "You did it on purpose. I saw you."" (Plath 149).
Esther pays close attention to detail and tends to make unusual and at times morbid comparisons. During the climax of her depression, she tries to kill herself numerous times. One of these suicide attempts occurs in a disused hole in the cellar. Her descriptions are especially vive and the analogies she makes are somewhat peculiar. .
"Cobwebs touched my face with the softness of moths. Wrapping.
my black coat around me like my own sweet shadow, I unscrewed .
the bottle of pills and started taking them swiftly, between gulps of .
water, one by one by one. .
At first nothing happened, but as I approached the bottom of the .
bottle, red and blue lights began to flash before my eyes. The bottle.
slid from my fingers and I lay down. The silence drew off, baring the .
pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Then, at the .
rim of vision it gathered itself and in one sweeping tide, rushed me to .
sleep." (Plath 138).
This detail allows the reader to have an intense visualization of her suicide attempt. Miss Plath's analogy between her life and the ocean is particularly profound, with the "tatty wreckage" being all of her failed hopes and expectations, and the "sweeping tide" is the death, which will rid of the "tatty wreckage".
Plot- The plot took place in New York where Esther and twelve other women who won a prize to live in New York for fashion. She soon realize that fashion isn't her thing. Esther is from a small town in Boston where she lives with her mother, (her father died when she was young) Her Family is very po...
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