Dwi Antari’s Reviews > The Bell Jar > Status Update

“I had hopes, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead—after all, I had been ‘analyzed’. Instead, all I could see were question marks.” 3

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. ..... . I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

“I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”