The bell jar movie julia stiles

In 10 Things I Hate About You, Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) plays the guitar, listens to riot grrrl music and reads ‘The Bell Jar’ by Sylvia Plath. In the decade that followed the film’s release, Stiles – Queen of the Shakespearean teen movie – was set to star in an adaptation of Plath’s seminal semi-autobiographical text.

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Unfortunately, the path to adaptation is not always clear, even for a book that has sold millions of copies worldwide.

‘The Bell Jar’ tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a college student who spends the summer at what should be a dream magazine internship in New York City. Charting her deteriorating mental health and subsequent treatment, it’s a coming-of-age novel that explores issues of identity, the suffocation of indecision and what it means to live in a patriarchal society.

Since the book was first published in 1963 there have been several attempts to turn it into a film.

The first – and so f Stiles picks up The Bell Jar - WhatCulture DEXA