Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable, witty and disturbing, The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel and was originally published under a pseudonym in 1963. What it has to say about what women expect of themselves, and what society expects of women, is as sharply relevant today as it has always been.埃丝特·格林伍德（EstherGreenwood）正在上大学，她正在进行两场斗争，一场是与她自己在所有方面——成绩、男友、长相、职业——追求完美的愿望作斗争，另一场是与无情的精神病作斗争。随着她的抑郁加深，她发现自己被困在其中，贝尔离开了世界其他地方。这是她回归现实之旅的故事。《钟形罩》可读性强、诙谐且令人不安，是西尔维娅·普拉斯唯一的一部小说，最初于1963年以笔名出版。关于女性对自己的期望，以及社会对女性的期望，它所说的话在今天和以往一样具有重要意义。