She eventually is put into a mental institution. (Spoilers ahead.)The book follows Esther Greenwood (The main charachter who Plath based herself on) who although is a striving young writer, finds herself spiraling downward into depression and eventually a suicide attempt.
It wasn't published under her real name until 1971, 9 years after Plath's suicide in 1963. To protect herself and the charachters based on real people, she first published the book under the name Victoria Lucas. The book was semi-autobiographical of Plath's life. Plath is able to capture perfectly what it is like to be stuck in a pit of depression, and how it hard it is to dig yourself out, if you even can. The Bell Jar is the only novel ever written by poet Sylvia Plath.
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