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It’s not easy being a woman in this harsh world. The Bell Jar is about Esther Greenwood who wins an internship in a New York fashion magazine. All seems great until her world comes crashing down and she gets gripped by depression. Summary of the Book The Bell Jar is the brutal truth about the fashion world. When Esther Greenwood is offered an internship in a New York magazine, she is delighted. She aspires to be a successful writer but only later does she realise that her life is not only about cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts. She slips into a depression and soon attempts suicide, all thanks to the society which fails to take her aspirations seriously. About Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was an American author and poet. She was renowned for her poetry. Plath authored books like Ariel, Letters Home and Crossing the Water.