2022 ONTD Reading Challenge discussion

Anyone want to join me for this one? Embarrassingly, this is my first time reading it.

This was my plan as well, to read this and The Handmaid's Tale since somehow, I've never read either.

This was a beautifully written, haunting story. As someone who suffers from similar mental issues, this hit home in not always great ways. Plath had such a unique way to describe how depression and mental illness affected her.

I have to ask, (view spoiler)[do you guys think she ended up killing herself at some point in her life? Or was she able to overcome that? (hide spoiler)]

I'm halfway through this right now and it's very haunting.

Started reading it today, so far it's interesting but definitely less melancholic than I though it was

Jamie wrote: "This was a beautifully written, haunting story. As someone who suffers from similar mental issues, this hit home in not always great ways. Plath had such a unique way to describe how depression and..."

I read this too :) - > review.

I guess that given the semi-autobiographical-ness of it the obvious answer to your point is yes. But I like to think that when Sylvia identified with Esther it was because she thought that she was going to be a survivor, at the time. Sadly, for whatever reason she ended up as more like Joan. In that interpretation, though, Esther survives.