The Bell Jar Quotes

Numb Trolleybus Simile

“I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus.”

Small Black Dot

I felt myself shrinking to a small black dot…There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”

UN Visit

“I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.”

Fig Tree Quote

“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 saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose.”

Men

“The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way.”

Tunnel Vision/Time

“I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.”

Doesn’t Matter Where She Esther Is At

“I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”

Figs Going Bad

“the figs began to wrinkle and go black”