What Is Sylvia Plath's 'Fig Tree Theory' And Why's Everyone Suddenly Talking About It?
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What Is Sylvia Plath's 'Fig Tree Theory' And Why's Everyone Suddenly Talking About It?
In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood imagines her life branching out before her like a green fig-tree. Each individual fig on the branches represents a different “wonderful future” – a family, a successful career, romance, travel, fame, etc. High-achieving Esther has innumerable figs she can choose from, yet she envisages herself “starving to death” in the crook of the tree because she can’t make u…
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