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Old 06-16-2004, 09:33 PM
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All in all, Sylvia Plath's real life was certainly a tragic one
In my opinion, that made The Bell Jar extra tragic.
Yes it does! But bear in mind that she published the book because she needed the money. She was a poet at heart. Her last poems are just terrible, and with that sense of foreboding about her death everywhere.

I liked The Bell Jar a lot, and it was sad to think she'd been through something similar at least at the beginning.

Also, about the film, I forgot to say that her two children were completely against it and refused to help with the making of it. They thing it's just a tabloid sort of film which shows their mother's darkest (and not always real) side. But go and see it if you can.
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