“When Esther finds herself in this neither/nor which eventually leads her to be incarcerated—contained—in an asylum, she experiences radical truths about the mythical discourse of choice and individual freedom in a free society in which she was so far believing.”
Parra Fernández, Laura de la. “‘We are all Mad here’: Sylvia Plath’s the Bell Jar as a Political Novel.” Revista De Filología Románica, vol. 33, 2016, pp. 166.