“I could not really tell if there were any additional figs past and above these.” “Because I couldn’t decide which figs I preferred, I imagined myself starving to death in the fig tree’s trunk. The alternative figure presented the Europen, African, and South American continents, as well as Constantine, Socrates, Attila, and a slew of other companions with odd names and odd occupations and an Olympian female crew winner. A charming family with children was represented by one fig, a renowned poet by another, a brilliant instructor by still another, and Ee Gee, the outstanding copyreader, by yet another fig. A great future motioned from the tips of every shrub, gleaming like a fat violet pig. In the story about a nun and a man who was a Jew, Esther first experiences the fig tree (55) “The particular fig tree grew amid a Jewish person’s house and a monastery on a verdant lawn…” “I could see my life thriving out before me, such as the green fig tree in the story,” she says later, as she mulls over her career opportunities and becomes concerned about her future (77). The fig tree is the most iconic symbolic image that torments the protagonist Esther. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is full of fascinating imagery and metaphors.

After realizing the world’s limitations and happiness, Esther secludes herself from the world to a place where death is tormenting. Thus, the dreams, goals, and ambition got rotten and dropped to her fit. Sylvia Plath makes the readers visualize a young woman under a fig tree full of figs and shows how she hesitates to pick the figs. She avoids choosing either for fear of losing the rest of the twigs. She hesitates only to follow one dream and compares her life to a fig tree which symbolizes ambition, dreams, and goals.

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