re: bell jar!!
Lagusta Pauline Yearwood (ly001f@uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Sun, 07 Dec 1997 17:38:27 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, David Schrimpf wrote:
> ObSalinger: I just started reading _The Bell Jar_, by Sylvia Plath (at
> school whenever I have nothing to do and a little time before my next
> class). Only on like page 50 but it reminds me a lot of Catcher so far...
> written in first person by a young woman who is lost and confused and
> disgusted (and in New York too).
WELL ALL RIGHT! Plath and Salinger, yahhhh! My two absolute favorites.
Yes, I see a lot of similarities between Plath and Salinger. Salinger
seems to have a much lighter wit and overall voice, Plath is much darker,
but they both convey the same general mood, the disgust and hopelessness
and confusion, just like you said. I feel sometimes if Plath (or Esther,
her alter ego in the novel) had the Glass family, she wouldn't feel so
lost and alienated and angry. And if Seymour didn't have his family he
would have been much darker. Seymour and Plath both committed suicide...
I can probably think of more similarities with more time and thought...
READ THE BELL JAR!
lagusta