Did anyone notice how the prose is actually kind of weak? I'm on page 30 and a bit disappointed since everybody talks about how awesome this is.
The Bell Jar
Ayden White
Dylan Reed
>everyone talks about how awesome this is
>everyone
>white girls aged 15-25
Zachary Cox
Prose isn't really its selling point
Except it is good
Andrew Rivera
Who talks about how awesome it is? This is not really highly regarded by anyone other than high school English teachers and their students
Angel Bennett
There are some evocative gems scattered about here and there. Too bad I can't remember anything in particular... There was a description of Esther having to do with the eye of a tornado or something that I found pretty powerful. The image of a bell jar itself is a good example of this too, I'd say. It's definitely more psychologically driven than prose driven though.
Easton Davis
>"ugh so there I was in New York, making friends and working a totes awesome job, but like, ughh I don't know, I just couldn't decide whether I wanted to be a brain surgeon or an astronaut so I kinda just became neither, like I know right!, haha anyway so I'm like super down right now because...ugh don't worry...but I'm kinda gonna have to kill myself urrrghh annoying right anyway k bye!"
What did womanhood mean by this?
David Parker
>everybody talks about how awesome this is
wtf where dumb ass idiot legit like 18 year old girls that go to BYU say it's awesome and that's it
Cooper Thompson
Its a very confessional writing style, I personally felt moved by the story.
Nathaniel Anderson
If I'm remembering the story correctly, the whole stint in New York was a program she got involved in as resume padder, pretty much. She wanted to write poetry, not articles about popular fashion and make up. As for womanhood, a theme that showed up over and over was how, being a woman in that time, these artistic goals would disappear if the woman actually did womanly things, like get married, have children, and keep house. Being a "woman" prohibits her from doing what she actually wants to do.
Mason Morales
it has its moments and i'm not the nabokovian type who hates a book for not having lush prose, but what hurts is that she often attempts to write great prose using weak comparisons and metaphors. i thought it'd be better if she'd kept it simple rather than ornamenting for the sake of ornamenting. there's this incidental contrast between artsy pretensions and pretty banal (although interesting/captivating nonetheless) narrating.