The Bell Jar
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What movie or book is the modern day equivalent to this book?
Lisette
Feb 13, 2013 06:16PM
As most, I feel that this book is still really relevant to our world today. I read this book when I was a teenager and kind of scoffed at it as being too melodramatic. Ten years later, I can appreciate it more fully for how it truthfully portrayed a serious illness and deeply rooted misogyny, still alive today.
I am looking for people's suggestions on a good comparative piece that can represent our present day situation on how we deal with depression and/or expectations of women. Does such a book exist?
I am looking for people's suggestions on a good comparative piece that can represent our present day situation on how we deal with depression and/or expectations of women. Does such a book exist?
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Revolutionary Road approaches expectations of women in a way I felt was similar to the Bell Jar. Also, the Hours certainly examines similar themes, though it's inspired by Virginia Woolf, not Plath. I adored both those books, by the way.
I just started Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann, and I have a feeling it will follow in this same vein.
I just started Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann, and I have a feeling it will follow in this same vein.
I've never read it, but I heard virgin suicides is comparable or similar. Weigh in! I loved the bell jar and would love to know.The Virgin Suicides
If you want a read modern one, set towards present day, I would recommend the books, The Torn Skirt or White Oleander
For one set more in the same time as The Bell Jar but with the same feel, Valley of The Dolls, Girl, Interrupted
For one set more in the same time as The Bell Jar but with the same feel, Valley of The Dolls, Girl, Interrupted
For some strange reason, this book reminds me of Catcher in the Rye.
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