American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1610 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The Bell Jar*
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The idea
The witness calls the novel highly readable and says it evokes the psychological problems beneath her successful surface, some personal and some from the belief, held by many women themselves, that women should not show anger or pursue a career. It appeared in January nineteen sixty-three.
In practice
A novel about a contradiction women lived.
Where people slip
It was published weeks before her death.
Your place on the trail
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