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Esther Greenwood, a college student, who had won a  writing contest, was now temporarily living in New York and for a fashion magazine. She was having the best opportunities yet she felt numb and disassociated. She wondered what was wrong with her…

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Esther goes to lenny's apartment, but later decides to go back home when she sees Doreen and lenny getting closer. Later that night, doreen wakes Esther up by showing up at her doorstep, but due to her annoyance, she refuses to let Doreen in and leaves her outside, along with a pool of vomit her drunk friend left.

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In this chapter, Esther’s first name is provided for the first time. Esther loses direction and focus because she had always been successful and never had barriers on her way.

Esther goes to the Ladies' Day banquet and eats a lot of food, especially caviar (which her grandfather introduced her to). Jay Cee, her boss, calls her into her office to discuss her future. Esther says that she doesn't have any further plans. She reminiscences the time when she lied in college in order to get out of a chemistry course.

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-While talking to Jay Cee, she feels guilty about tricking Mr Manzi.
-Esther looks up to her boss and wishes she would have had more role models like her.
-It is revealed that her father died when she was nine, this strained her relationship with her mother.
-Esther has the Philomena Guinea scholarship
-After the banquet, the girls decided to attend a movie. While being there, they feel sick and return to the hotel, where they throw up and are told they were poisoned.
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Plath provides images of cleansing in this chapter. The first is the bath, a baptism into pureness. This is a cleansing which leaves Esther feeling holy and ready for a new life. Later on there is another sign, the book of short stories. Short story writing will be Esther’s next focus. The poisoning is also symbolic. Going to New York is supposed to be good for her career. Instead, it contributes to her breakdown.

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-Constantin calls her and asks her on a tour of the UN;
-She finds a story about a fig tree that she especially likes in the "The Thirty Best Short Stories";
-She identifies her relationship with Buddy with the story about the fig tree;
- Buddy's been sending her letters from a sanatorium;
-Esther sees herself as more experienced than Buddy, but she discovers he is a hypocrite.

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-Buddy shows Esther some "interesting" places in the hospital;
-In his room, Buddy asks if Esther has ever seen a naked man, and after she says no, he asks if she would like to;
-Esther consented;
-Buddy asks to see Esther naked but she doesn't agree;
-Esther asks if Buddy has ever had an affair and Buddy reveals that he slept with a waitress, which came as a shock to Esther, who considered him pure;
-Esther comes to see Buddy as a hypocrite.

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Constantin picks up Esther and drives her to the UN

Esther finds Constantin attractive

At the UN, Esther thinks it odd that she never before realized that she was only happy until the age of nine

She thinks of all the things she can't do when watching the interpreters

When she learns about Buddy's affair, Esther vows to "go out and sleep with somebody myself."

She recalls a boy named Eric she considers sleeping with, but he believes sex and love do not belong in the same relationship. When Eric says he might love Esther, she knows he will not want to have sex with her.

Esther remembers an article her mother sent on the importance of female purity. She thinks the article ignores women's feelings. But Esther sleeps before anything sexual happens to Constantin.

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Esther remembers Mr. Willard drives her to visit Buddy. He stopped along the way and told her that he would like to have her for a daughter

When Esther and Buddy are alone, he proudly shows her a terrible poem he has written

Buddy takes Esther skiing, though neither of them has ever skied before

At the top of the mountain, she considers suicide: "The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower." She points her skis straight down and takes off, thinking, "This is what it is to be happy." At the bottom of the mountain, she falls and breaks her leg in two places.

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—Esther needed to shoot a photo to the magazine, representing what she wants to be. She decided to be a poet.

—When the photographer tells her to smile, she begins to cry because she was not sure about that.

—She went to the ball with Doreen, the person that she "wanted" to be. And had a date with Marco.

—Marco was apparently a nice guy and have a crush in his cousin that was going to be a nun. He tried to rape Esther.

—Esther wouldn't do nothing about, until he calls her "slut" when she finally hit him in the noise.

—After, she goes away to the hotel, and throws all the clothers off the roof.

—Dirty and with Marco's blood, all the people look at her, while she is in a train going to her mother's house

—Esther was rejected in the writing course

—She received a letter from Buddy saying that he is falling in love with a nurse, but if Esther came back, she would have his affection again. She answer that she is engaged to a simultaneous interpreter and never wants to see Buddy again.

—Esther decides to write a novel, but got sadder when perceive that she didn't have experiences

—She asks Teresa, a doctor, for more sleeping pills. But she said to her go talk with a psychiatrist.

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Esther, in a poor condition, went to Dr. Gordon, hoping he would help her in some way. She gets mad at him for having a picture of his family and for looking too perfect. She told him what’s wrong, that she cannot sleep, eat, or read, though she does not tell him of her difficulty writing.

Then Esther goes to Boston Common and pretends to be Elly Higginbottom, an orphan, born in Chicago. She was nervous after she thought she had seen Mrs Willard.

She returns to the doctor and shows no signs of improvement. The doctor decides she will need shock therapy.
Esther thinks about commiting suicide and running away to Chigaco, in order to avoid undergoing shock therapy.

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In this chapter occurs her first shock treatment.

Esther in the hospital finds a woman that tried to jump from the window, but there was bars that prevent it.

Dr. Gordon, as Esther thought, is not capacible to help her.

He tells Esther that she is going to need to do more sessions, she refused. Esther's mother thinks that she is better when she refuses to do the treatment.

She says that Esther will DECIDE to get better. As if it is a option.

She compares herself with a picture of a dead woman.

Tried to slit her wrists, but failed. After, again she considered. However, give up.

She thinks about drowning herself in the ocean, she goes back at night to commit suicide. The water was too cold so she gave up

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-Esther tried to drown herself whilst being on the beach with her friends. Also she tried to hang herself.

-Esther volunteers at the local hospital.

Esther runs away from the hospital. Esther considers becoming Catholic

Esther continues to think on ways to kill herself

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-Esther wakes up in a hospital but doesn't realize it until later in the chapter. She believes she lost her sight, but then a doctor visits her and said her eyesight is intact.

-Her mother and brother visit her but wished they were gone.

-Esther becomes paranoid and starts imagining that the staff and everyone around her are against her.

-At the end of the chapter Esther is transferred to a city hospital.

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Philomena Guinea, who is paying for her expenses, including her scholarship, goes check on Esther and decides to transfer her to a private hospital.
Esther thinks about throwing herself out of the car and off the bridge, but her mother and brother sit next to the door. Later on she realizes she wouldn't have jumped.
There Esther meets her new psychiatrist, Doctor Nolan. She seems to be a better doctor than Dr. Gordon. She is told that she won't have to undergo any other shock therapy.
Esther gets some insulin shots.
She meets Valerie, a girl in the asylum that got a lobotomy.
"I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air"- She can't feel anything and continues to feel empty in every situation.
Esther meets Joan, Buddy's ex girlfriend , who is also in the mental hospital.

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Joan shows how she was inspired by Esther to commit her own suicide attempt. Joan tried to kill herself by punching her fists in her friend's apartment

Esther felt better because of the insulin therapy reaction

Dr. Nolan tells her that she will have no more visitors.

Esther was increasingly selfish. She took the flowers her mother gave her and threw them in the trash in front of her mother. She later reveals to Dr. Nolan that she hates her mother.