The Bell jar chapter 1-2

The first line of the novel is talking about New York and the Rosenbergs being executed that year.  It was a bad case with the Rosenbergs because they had exploited important information to the Soviet Union over the bomb.  You get the sense in the first line that Esther was not having an amazing time in New York like she should have.  It seems that she was just ok with being in New York and it wasn’t this awesome experience that she should be having.  The other girls around her were excited and crazy about getting the experience to go to New York and have this modeling opportunity.  She said in the first line that she didn’t understand why she was in New York.  It was like she was there because she had gotten the request to come and that was that.