When Plath describes the atmosphere of the bell jar as being rarified, one is almost led to belief that she views the air as exclusive, premiere, or even possibly the image of tasting well. The jar described in the novel however entirely counteracts this idea in the connotation switching to negative, spoiled, or discomforting. Esther describes herself as almost cooking in this jar full of bitter lonesomeness, or rotting in a forgotten storage container, slowly becoming worse and less appealing, while going unnoticed by the outside world, only compounding upon itself when trying to escape. This leads the reader to believe that this confinement is not only gross and horrifying, but also insightful of hatred and anger. Because she is trapped, and has no way of contacting the people just out of reach, she has grown in her frustration, and begins directing her aggression outward.. Plath makes it almost too clear that the story aligns in more than one way with her own life. Her own feelings of entrapment and displeasure in her own experiences of society and marriage shine through in Esther’s disgust and isolation, as well as her sexual and emotional
When Plath describes the atmosphere of the bell jar as being rarified, one is almost led to belief that she views the air as exclusive, premiere, or even possibly the image of tasting well. The jar described in the novel however entirely counteracts this idea in the connotation switching to negative, spoiled, or discomforting. Esther describes herself as almost cooking in this jar full of bitter lonesomeness, or rotting in a forgotten storage container, slowly becoming worse and less appealing, while going unnoticed by the outside world, only compounding upon itself when trying to escape. This leads the reader to believe that this confinement is not only gross and horrifying, but also insightful of hatred and anger. Because she is trapped, and has no way of contacting the people just out of reach, she has grown in her frustration, and begins directing her aggression outward.. Plath makes it almost too clear that the story aligns in more than one way with her own life. Her own feelings of entrapment and displeasure in her own experiences of society and marriage shine through in Esther’s disgust and isolation, as well as her sexual and emotional