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Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably... read more
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Memorable Quotes
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“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. (page 94)”
Esther -
“I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, and this made me even sadder and more tired. (page 30)”
Esther (narration) -
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. (page 44)”
Esther (narration) -
“It mightn't make me any happier, but it would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles.”
Esther (narration) -
“It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.”
Esther (narration)
First Sentence
iT WAS A QUEER, SULTRY SUMMER, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
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Authors & Contributors
- Sylvia Plath (Author)
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