After being rejected by a writing seminar, the mother urges the protagonist in this novel to learn shorthand, and the protagonist contemplates suicide after a botched outpatient shock therapy.
After the protagonist in this novel is forced to walk home alone after getting drunk, the protagonist's friendship with Doreen ends. The protagonist in this novel escapes being raped by her blind date on her last day in New York and attempts to lose her virginity to Constantin. After being rejected by a writing seminar, the mother urges the protagonist in this novel to learn shorthand, and the protagonist contemplates suicide after a botched outpatient shock therapy. For 10 points, Buddy Willard is treated for tuberculosis, and Philomena Guinea pays for Esther Greenwood's treatment in this American novel by Sylvia Plath.
After the protagonist in this novel is forced to walk home alone after getting drunk, the protagonist's friendship with Doreen ends.
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