what is so attracting about the book is that the author Sylvia Plath has committed suicide just like her main character was trying to do by many ways in the book (The Bell Jar). 
 this main character Esther Greenwood was brilliant and successful, but had many reasons to feel like crap, even when she doesn't have a reason she makes one hhhh, this novel is a very depressing material, however it becomes more hopeful by the end of it. i have mixed feeling about this one and i have to say that the book only become famous after the author took her life, so sad she didn't live to see her success (or not cuz some people say that the book is over rated and if she didn't die her book will not receive the same success)