The Bell Jar is during a six-month period in the life Esther Greenwood. The year is 1953. It is first set in New York, in a hotel for women with the fictional title of Amazon, and in the offices of a women's fashion magazine. Later, the protagonist returns to her home in the suburbs of Boston. She receives outpatient shock treatment in Walton, Massachusetts. Then she spends a short time in a city psychiatric hospital. Esther …showed first 75 words of 700 total…

…showed last 75 words of 700 total…unable to live it. People suffering from emotional illness are living as if under a bell jar. Isolated from others and unable to escape the distortions of their view of the world. I liked this book, and would recommend it to many people. At first, it was slow and depressing, but it picked up fast. You have to get used to the depression she impresses on you through out the whole book, but it's life.