Sylvia Plath

Follows step-by-step for one month as Esther Greenwood's strained relations with her mother and her boyfriend leads her to a mental breakdown.

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Melanie

Neurotic, ha!" I let out a scornful laugh. "If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then Im neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."  

Florence

Maybe forgetfulness, like a snow, should numb and cover them.

But they were part of me. They were my landscape.

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