The Bell Jar: Chapter 3

Journal Entry
#5
November 7, 2007
Chapter 3
Page 27 Paragraph 1
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"We were always taken out on expense accounts, so I never felt guilty. I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce."

The people in the 1950's liked to keep up appearances. People today like to do the same too. The girls will eat salads and small soups so they will stay skinny and people will think they have a little appetite and eat healthy, but that is only what people see when the people are eating out. Esther likes to be herself everywhere she goes. She eats a lot at the Ladies' Day Banquet because she doesn't really care what people think about her, she does it because she wants to do it. Esther eats a lot because she knows that she doesn't have to pay for the food, that is the same thing I would do.