Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

I really do need to read her work, don't I.

I haven't read it, sometime, I would like to, but I always found her longer poetry maddening. from my limited knowledge of her poetry and life, an abrupt end in her novel seems appropriate.

Plath:

Dangerous poetry. (i) messes with Jungian archetypes (ii) celebrates the death insticnt (thanatos) (iii) can be too influential in turning sadness into crippling depression within young readers. See especially "ariel".

I haven't read the book but I intend to