Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath's "Bell Jar" is a true reflection of who she was as a person.  There is so much here in this chapter alone that goes so psychologically deep.  We discussed the very first line of chapter 10 in class.  "The face in the mirror looked like a sick indian."  To me this line made sense.  Sylvia Plath was a poet and these lines seem to make perfect sense in the poets eye.  This line is specifically referring to the blood on her face.  By comparing it to an indian she means that the lines on her cheeks look like those of probably Native American indian face paint.  The word sick comes from her emotional state.  Perhaps she is pale after the traumatizing events that just took place (the rape).

The lines in the chapter that stand alone as paragraphs I think truly reflect her success as a poet.  The one line paragraphs are like mini poems.  I think it's great how Plath bends the rules in a sense.  We don't usually see one line paragraphs.