The Bell Jar: A Metaphor for Depression

The bell jar is a metaphor that our main character Esther Greenwood uses to describe the world closing in around her. The book is really split up into three sections, even though it's just individual chapters. So we have the first section in New York. We have the middle section where she goes back home. And then we have the third section which most closely models after Platt's time in McLean hospital.