The Bell Jar: or in other words the mind; the deep, constrained depths of the mind is Esther and it is what makes Esther function, without it she is not complete, and if she does depart from it, it is only a façade, an illusion that she has. Sylvia Plath, the author of this novel gave herself a mirror image in Esther, a depressed, suicidal thinking lady. The bell jar gives life to Esther, and in return it can take it away, but it does give both a unique life, and a unique death. She is the product of the bell jar, her environment, and her thoughts. The problems and sightings she encounters in the novel are aspects of life, but her mind decides to work overtime to make sense of the fantasy land in which she endures so much pain and solitude, into another fantasy land, her bell jar.