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Esther's loneliness

                                                                 Esther's Loneliness                                        The entire metaphor of the Bell Jar is of her depression. Similarly to a character like Holden Caulfield, they both feel a resentment towards the social norms, but they present in different ways, while Holden Caulfield is far more "outspoken" about his dissatisfaction with the world and feels no shame from the fact that the rest of the world is different from him. Esther on the other hand chooses to bottle her feelings, there are constant scenes throughout the book where there are things that she want's to say in her mind but she never has the guts to say it. The bell jar to me is her defense on prot...
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The Catcher in the Rye

                                                                              Catcher in the Rye: Coming-of-Age? or maybe not? We had just finished reading Catcher in the Rye last week and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised with how it ended, near about the end it still felt like there was much more to this journey explore but to me the ending felt quite abrupt. I thought that the book would have ended with Holden dying or actually going to a ranch in Colorado never to be seen again as he said he would but none of that would happen and he would end up returning home after he saw his sister being mad. I feel like for this book, it did not exactly feel like a Coming-of-Age novel, because while the main character were exposed by some ideals that could cause him to change as a person su...
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