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AnotherOmnishambles t1_iu4fvra wrote

Reply to comment by DrSarahDavid in "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath by salon_i

I understand if a book isn’t to someone’s tastes but I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at.

How can a book about depression be criticised for being “relentlessly depressing”? Isn’t the whole point that she has loads of promise and goes “entirely nowhere”?

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