“I am and I am not”: Autofictional Narrative Construction and the Divided Psyche in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
Plath never lets Esther Greenwood fully own her story. There is always something withheld, some part of the narrating voice that watches the rest of it speak, and that watching creates a problem that neither the character nor the novel ever resolves. This is not a flaw in The Bell Jar (1963)....
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