"I love walking. It might be because I don't get cat called," he says of his experience in central Ohio. "It's more different than you can ever imagine it being from where you are just to have like these huge buildings and all these people around all the time." Esther is infatuated with a guy named Buddy Willard, who sounds like a cartoon cowboy. She rips about what a male drug that is to make a thing that a woman would forget how painful birth is so that she would just do it again. He assures her that the woman's not in pain because she's on like an epidural when they see a live birth.
This week we dive into Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, a quasi-autobiographical novel about womanhood, depression, and identity. We also discuss the unfortunate circumstances of Plath's early death, country mice moving to big cities, and metaphorical chemistry equipment.
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