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Title: Falls short of expectations of "brilliance"
Review: I am almost sorry to say that my reading of Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar" was not nearly as moving or thought-provoking as it seems to be for so many. In my opinion, "The Bell Jar"'s Esther Greenwood is entirely unsympathetic, to the detriment of the novel. While I recognize the necessity of emphasizing her deterioration, I found her to be overly melodramatic and weak (while still recognizing her "condition"), and I loathed her from the start. While I will allow that Plath's prose is more eloquent than her poetry I failed to find evidence of the brilliance so often extolled.
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