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* CaptainErsatz: Philomena Guinea is a barely-disguised version of novelist Olive Higgins Prouty.
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* TheFifties: The novel is set in this decade and takes a scathingly cynical look at the decade's opinions on women.
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* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Esther. Most of the girls she meets in New York qualify as well, including Joan (at least in outward appearance) and Betsy aka "Pollyanna Cowgirl" (who really is).
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* BloodstainedDefloration: Esther bleeds after losing her virginity. Her partner tells her that it's nothing to worry about, but the bleeding won't stop and she eventually has to go to the hospital. The doctor tells her "it's one in a million it happens to like this."
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* WarmMilkHelpsYouSleep: After a successful reaction to insulin therapy, [[note]]At the time, giving a mentally ill patient controlled doses of insulin and waiting until they experienced a ''mild diabetic coma'' was a common treatment, used similarly to electro-convulsive therapy: the shock of a severe sugar crash was thought to relieve depression.[[/note]] Esther is offered a glass of hot milk, as much to calm her after the traumatic event as to raise her blood sugar.
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* SuicideByPills: Esther tries to kill herself 3 times (by cutting, hanging, and drowning, in order) before she actually attempts to go through with it. She then takes a large amount of sleeping pills in a hole in the basement, only for her to be found, sent to the hospital, and end up in an asylum.
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* AdultFear: Esther's fear that life is passing her by when she realises that she has no concrete career plans will hit close to home for many teenagers and twenty-somethings.
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* TheFifties: The novel is set in this decade, and takes an extremely scathing and critical look at the decade's opinions on women.
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Adapted into a 1979 film directed by Larry Peerce, starring Marilyn Hassett as Esther and Creator/JulieHarris as her mother. A second adaptation, starring Creator/JuliaStiles, was announced in 2007 but languished in DevelopmentHell, and Stiles eventually relinquished the rights. Yet another adaptation, to be directed by Creator/KirstenDunst and starring Creator/DakotaFanning, was announced for the big screen in 2017 but subsequently aborted; two years later the project, still with Fanning attached, was reimagined as a TV series but that never came to fruition either.
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The novel itself has been adapted once in 1979 starring Marilyn Hassett as the protagonist. A second adaptation starring Julia Stiles was announced [[DevelopmentHell but never happened]], and Stiles relinquished the rights. Creator/KirstenDunst has announced another adaptation, starring Creator/DakotaFanning, that was due out in 2017 but also never happened.
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[[caption-width-right:225:First published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"]]
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Published in 1963 and written by Creator/SylviaPlath, ''The Bell Jar'' tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a young, beautiful, successful nineteen-year-old girl whose talents and ambitions are being stifled by societal pressures. The novel opens with Esther in New York working on an internship at a big glamorous publishing company (obviously based on Condé Nast and ''Mademoiselle'', where Plath really interned). The interns get dresses, makeup, free theater tickets and all sort of other gifts from sponsors. In the midst of this glamorous dream come true, all she can think of is how [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg the Rosenbergs]] are going to be executed. Esther feels increasingly isolated and troubled by her inability to enjoy herself in direct violation of what society expects.
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* StepfordSuburbia: How Esther views the neighborhood where her mother lives. When she finds herself stuck there for the summer, the thought of spending three month among all those identical tidy houses and conservative housewives contributes to her depression.
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* BadDreams: Metaphorically used to describe what the world is like to the person inside the bell jar.
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* QueerFlowers: Esther suspects that her mannish editor Jay Cee is a lesbian, paranoid at one point that she is trying to "convert" her. Jay Cee's office is full of fake plants including African violets which Esther makes special mention of, and in her first appearance she is dressed in purple with purple flowers on her hat.
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The novel itself has been adapted once in 1979 starring Marilyn Hassett as the protagonist. A second adaptation starring Julia Stiles was announced [[DevelopmentHell but never happened]], and Stiles relinquished the rights. Creator/KirstenDunst has announced another adaptation, starring Creator/DakotaFanning and due out in 2017.
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2017 but also never happened.
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* AmbiguousEnding: The novel ends with Esther entering the room for her medical review. But it's pretty clear that she'll be released from the hospital.
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* GainaxEnding: The novel ends with Esther entering the room for her medical review. It's pretty clear that she'll be released from the hospital.
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* StockShoutOuts: Got a moody female character or a girl that's feeling down? Show her reading ''The Bell Jar.'' Can be seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', ''Film/Heathers'' and ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou''. Other sources merely reference the novel.
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* StockShoutOuts: Got a moody female character or a girl that's feeling down? Show her reading ''The Bell Jar.'' Can be seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', ''Film/Heathers'' ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' and ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou''. Other sources merely reference the novel.
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* StockShoutOuts: Got a moody female character or a girl that's feeling down? Show her reading ''The Bell Jar.'' Can be seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', and ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou''. Other sources merely reference the novel.
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* StockShoutOuts: Got a moody female character or a girl that's feeling down? Show her reading ''The Bell Jar.'' Can be seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', ''Film/Heathers'' and ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou''. Other sources merely reference the novel.
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* BigEater: Esther unabashedly loves food--the fancier, the better. One of the few things she seems to genuinely enjoy about her stay in New York City is many free meals the group is treated to...and because so many of the other interns are dieting, she gets to help herself to their caviar.
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* ThePollyanna: Betsy is described as a country version of this trope.
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* ThePollyanna: Betsy is described as a country version of this trope. Doreen and Esther secretly nickname her "Pollyanna Cowgirl."
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* CagedBirdMetaphor: Birds are one of many AnimalMotifs employed to communicate Esther's building sense of confinement and of the artificiality of the cooped-up women around her.
** Of her friend Doreen and the man they are out with:
--->He kept staring at her the way people stare at the great white macaw in the zoo, waiting for it to say something human.
** Later, of the tenants in a high-end asylum:
--->The women were all sitting up and knitting or riffling through magazines or putting their hair in pin curls and chattering like parrots in a parrot house.
** Of her friend Doreen and the man they are out with:
--->He kept staring at her the way people stare at the great white macaw in the zoo, waiting for it to say something human.
** Later, of the tenants in a high-end asylum:
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** Another example comes when Esther tries to write her great American novel. She decides that her protagonist (a thinly veiled version of herself) has to the same amount of letters in her first name as Esther herself does. [[AuthorAvatar Sylvia and Esther also both have six letters in their names]].
