The Bell Jar Chapter 17-18

Esther talks about feeling trapped in a bell jar a couple times in the book.  She feels this way because she cannot go anywhere.  She is stuck at the asylum with being depressed and feeling suicidal.  All Esther wants to do is be able to walk around freely and go about her life in a normal way.  She knows that even if she went back into the real world she would still be trapped, because of being depressed and the fact that she has no idea what she wants done with her life.  She will always feel stuck and she cannot do anything about it.  It really bugged her that she was stuck with the way she was and couldn’t get out of it. It made Esther mad that she couldn’t do anything about it.