Bell Jar

– Noun

– a bell shaped usually glass vessel designed to cover objects or to contain gases

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– ” To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”

– Esther Greenwood is the person in the bell jar. She is trapped within her own mind which leads to her depression.

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