Chemistry

In chapter three we find out that Esther had been called into the office to talk to Jay Cee while all the other girls were getting ready for the fur show. Jay Cee had called her in to see if Esther's mind was on track. Then Esther went off track, as usual, and began to talk about her physics class in college and how she was the only girl that received straight A's in the class. She then tells us how much she did not want to take chemistry and that she would do anything to get out of it. To be quite honest, I would have done the same thing. I think the whole reason why she refused to take chemistry because much like physics, it was out of her comfort zone. She says earlier on that when ever she picked up a german dictionary, "her mind shut like a clam.", learning german or taking a class that was going to be hard didn't seem to her like it would have much use. She was an English major and saw no need for taking some class that she would have to work extremely hard at. The reason i think she finds it so overwhelming is because it's like a foreign language to her and in the end it wont help her write poetry books and become an editor. 

The Bell Jar

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and i didn't know what i was doing in New York. The first line gives us the sense that Esther doesn't exactly know what her purpose is in New York. The mentioning of the Rosenbergs's execution in a way shows that nothing really that great happened during her stay. She has never been out of New England before this trip and she seems like she is getting more than annoyed with all the women around her who are living off of their husband and dad's salaries. She says that most women would kill for what she is doing, working for a fashion magazine and constantly partying, but she doesn't see all the hype surrounded by it. Her really only good friend as of now is Doreen. Doreen isn't that great of a friend because she is constantly getting drunk forcing Esther to take care of her and she is sort of a slut. Near the end of chapter two Esther decides that Doreen isn't the best person for her to be friends with so she decides to stop hanging out with her. When the two go to a bar with Lenny and Frankie we see just how uncomfortable Esther really is with the positions she gets placed in. When Lenny and Doreen are hooking up at Lenny's house Esther is just left watching and decides to just get up and go back to the hotel. She doesn't like the constant partying and being hit on by men like most of all the other girls like.