Tear Jerker / Sylvia Plath

• The Bell Jar. The protagonist and Author Avatar, Esther Greenwood, undergoes a mental breakdown and becomes suicidal. She half-heartedly attempts suicide by slitting her wrists in the bathtub, but can't bring himself to do it because her pale skin looked so defenseless and what she really wanted to cut at was beneath her skin and then she tries to drown herself in the ocean, but, more or less, the ocean spits her back out. Then she finally goes through with a suicide attempt when she downs a bottle of sleeping pills and hides herself in the basement. The biopic about Plath's life put it best when her mother said, "Some people want to be found; Sylvia didn't."
  • Sylvia Plath's journals can have the same effect if you get attached to her after seeing what kind of person she was. Once you read the last of her journals, you may feel bad for her once the realization hits you that Plath killed herself after her husband left her. She stuck her head in a gas oven and suffocated from the fumes.
• "Lady Lazarus."
  Soon, soon the flesh
  The grave cave ate will be
  At home on me
  
  And I am a smiling woman.
  I am only thirty.
  And like a cat I have nine times to die.
  
  This is Number Three.
  What a trash
  To annihilate each decade.
  
  The second time I meant
  To last it out and not come back at all.
  I rocked shut
  
  As a seashell.
  They had to call and call
  And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
  
  I do it so it feels like hell.
  I do it so it feels real.
  I guess you could say I've a call.

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