“The very start of the narrative signals an event that marked Cold War politics:the electrocution of the Rosenbergs, a seemingly all-American couple executed for working as spies for the communist government. Esther, despite constantly wanting to detach herself from the world around her, feels a certain fascination and repulsion towards their execution…”
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. 164.
