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The Bell Jar Quotes Flashcards

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He wears net underwear because “mother says they wash easily”

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Buddy Wilard

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He slept with the waitress because she was “free, white, and twenty-one”

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Buddy Willard

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“Pollyanna Cowgirl”

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Esther on Betsy

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“Woman-hater”

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Esther on Marco

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“You didn’t make that writing course”

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Mrs Greenwood

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“Alphabet soup of letters”

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Esther

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going to college was “impossible and embarrassing”

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Esther

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“I can’t sleep, I can’t read”

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Esther to Dr Gordon

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“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security”

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Mrs Willard repeated by Buddy

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“What a man is is an arrow and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from”

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Mrs Willard repeated by Buddy

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“Teaching shorthand”

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Esther about Mrs Greenwood

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“Had convinced me to study shorthand”

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Esther about Mrs Greenwood

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13
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“Plug-ugly”

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Esther on Jay Cee

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“At the peak of her career, she had been in an asylum as well”

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Esther about Philomena Guinea

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“I never feel so much myself as when I am in a hot bath”

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Esther

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“I feel myself growing pure again”

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Esther

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“I have never known them and I am very pure”

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Esther

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“Deep down … it was Betsy I resembled at heart”

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Esther

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“Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind … in the dark heart of New York”

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Esther

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“Betsy had traded me a blouse and a skirt”

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Esther

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“I wondered how long it had been since this particular square of soil had seen the sun”

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Esther

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“Last week I cut the plastic starfish off the sunglasses case for the baby to play with”

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Esther (implying she has a child at the beginning)

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“Joan spoke with her usual breathy enthusiasm”

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Esther

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“How did I know … the bell jar … wouldn’t descend again?”

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Esther

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“His eyelashes were so long they looked artificial”
Esther on Dr Gordon
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“Hated him the minute I walked through the door”
Esther on Dr Gordon
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“Made it sound as if nothing was really wrong, I only thought it was wrong”
Esther on Dr Gordon
28
“Electrocutions make me sick”
Esther
29
“Their first time everybody’s scared to death”
Nurse to Esther
30
“I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done”
Esther
31
“Most boys were like that”
Esther on Buddy for sleeping with a waitress
32
Poetry is “a piece of dust”
Buddy
33
“I didn’t like him much anyway”
Joan about Buddy
34
“Dealt to him”
Esther with Marco
35
“Slut! … Slut!”
Marco
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“Stained my cheeks” with his blood
Esther with Marco
37
“I decided to seduce him”
Esther with Irwin
38
“I seem .. to get on with the ladies”
Irwin
39
“I had nothing to do with Doreen”
Esther
40
“Only thing to do was dump her on the carpet”
Esther about Doreen
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“Elly Higginbottom”
Esther’s alias Doreen becomes accustomed immediately to
42
“As if she were trying to save me in some way”
Esther about Betsy
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“Joan and I might have something in common”
Esther
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“Joan was the beaming double of my old best self”
Esther
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“Her thoughts and feelings seemed a wry, black image of my own”
Esther
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“I felt it unfair of Joan to beat me through the gates”
Esther
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“I would always treasure Joan”
Esther
48
“I’m never going to get married”
Esther
49
“Hated the idea of serving men in any way”
Esther
50
“I was engaged to a simultaneous interpreter and never wanted to see Buddy again”
Esther Lies to escape him
51
“A grotesque, protruding stomach”
Esther about Dodo Conway
52
“Serene, almost religious smile”
Esther about Dodo Conway
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“The pin curls on her head glistening like bayonets”
Esther on Mrs Greenwood
54
“She looked loving and reproachful and I wanted her to go away”
Esther on Ms Greenwood
55
“For the price of their care and influence, have me resemble them”
Esther on her scholarship
56
“Had said some terrible things to me”
Esther about Jay Cee
57
“In Defence of Chastity” - “A mans world was different from a woman’s world”
Mrs Willard sends the article to Esther What it argued “As soon as she gave in, they would lose all respect for her” “The one thing this article didn’t consider was how the girl felt”
58
“Choosing one meant loosing all the rest”
Esther about the fig tree
59
“She wants to be everything”
Jay Cee on Esther
60
“I began to feel pleased at my cleverness”
Esthers lies to Dr Gordon
61
“Skin of my wrist looked so white and defenceless”
Esther
62
“What I wanted to kill wasn’t in that skin … but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at”
Esther
63
“You’ll marry a nice blind man one day”
After Esther was discovered
64
“I knew my baby wasn’t like that”
Mrs Greenwood
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“Motherly breath of the suburbs” “soothing hand over everything, like death”
Esther when arriving home
66
“A voice cried, ‘Mother!’”
Esther when she is being discovered
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“Children made me sick”
Esther
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“Babies rolling over for the first time .. babies doing all the little tricky things”
Esther
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“Why was I so unmaternal and apart? Why couldn’t I devote myself to baby after fat pulling baby like Dodo Conway?”
Esther
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“I had nothing idea how old it was”
Esther
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“Spider-fat stomach” “I couldn’t see her face”
Esther
72
“Yawning and painting their nails and trying to keep up their Bermuda tans”
Esther on the women in New York
73
“Almost everybody in New York was trying to reduce”
Esther
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“He could teach me all I needed to know”
Buddy to Esther (3rd person, from Esthers perspective), about skiing
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“Buddy hadn’t started it and it wasn’t really his fault”
Esther, displacing blame onto the waitress
76
“Ever since I’d learned about the corruptions of Buddy Willard my virginity weighed like a millstone around my neck”
Esther
77
“I am climbing to freedom”
Esther once on birth control
78
“Freedom from marrying the wrong person, like Buddy Willard”
Esther
79
“I felt part of a great tradition”
Esther after haemorrhaging
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“My wound”
Esther
81
“Dodo interested me in spite of myself”
Esther
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“I knew perfectly well he’d come for Doreen”
Esther
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“Which I’d never have the courage to wear”
Esther

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