The Bell Jar 7

Throughout the novel, we have witnessed Esther’s mental sanity go from okay to worse. In chapter 13 and 14, Esther begins to seriously think suicide. The first attempt at suicide in these chapters was when she was at the beach with Jody, Mark, and Cal, and she tried to drown herself. Later, she took her sleeping pills from her mother’s lock box and took fifty of them, which is obviously a very unsafe amount. The next morning, she woke up in the hospital.
It really did not matter whether Esther was seeing Dr. Gordon, receiving shock therapy, or even seeing a different doctor. Esther has suicide on her mind and is very depressed. Esther has reached that all time low where she believes that killing herself is the only solution. Even if she did go to another institution, she would still want to kill herself because she believes that suicide is the only remedy to all of her problems.