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In the beginning of the book, Sylvia Platt uses the quote “It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenberg’s, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York” to introduce her novel. This line set the stage and mood for the emotions that would be portrayed by the main character, Esther, throughout the novel, The Bell Jar. The quote shows how cynical she is and how much she does not want to confrom to society. She wants to ber her own person. She does not feel unique. Her situation is much like the situation of the girls in the fil, Mona Lisa Smile. The majority of the women that attend Wellesley are there just to kill off time before they get married, have a family, and tend to her home. This is what Esther feels like she is doing. She feels like she is just killing time by going to parties, wearing styling outfits, meeting the big shots and celebrities, getting noticed. She hated this. She wanted to be in this magazine for the writing, but because she wasn't in this fashion magazine as a writer, she did not like being there and had a dull and grey outlook on life. She had something missing inside of her, and her being in New York did not help to fill the hole, if not to worsen it.