“When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line.”
1. The Bell Jar
2. Sylvia Plath
3. Esther who is the protagonist and narrator
4.This quote shows that Esther live in a world of limited sexual choices. Convention dictates that she will remain a virgin until she marries. If she chooses to have sex before marriage, she risks pregnancy, displeasing her future husband, and ruining her own name.
5.Esther looses her virginity with someone she does not expect to marry. regardless of this firm goal, she finds it difficult to gain an independent sexual identity.
