Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Bell Jar Blog 6

• Blog – Why doesn’t Esther like Dr. Gordon? Is he hurting or helping her?

Esther goes to Dr. Gordon two times. Esther goes to Dr. Gordon because she cannot sleep, she hasn’t washed her hair in three weeks; she is suffering from depression. Her first trip to Dr. Gordon isn’t a good one, he asks Esther if she can tell him what is wrong, he is not being the kind of doctor she wants him to be. On her second trip he suggests electro-shock treatment. This causes Esther to think thoughts of suicide. She receives one treatment of electro-shock and it does not help, in fact it may have made things worse. She is now loosing sense of time. I think that Dr. Gordon has hurt Esther more then he has helped her. He has made her thoughts darker, and the treatment has all but helped her.

2 comments:

erik simmons said...

your thoughts are very interesting, i am not sure about the last thign that you said, how he has hurt her. i dont think we was hurting her, he defiantly was not helping her. other than that i thought your ideas were very well thought out.

The O.G. said...

I didn't think about how Dr. GOrdon made her thoughts darker, that was very insightful my man. Instead of helping her like doctors do, he actually unintentionally helped her with her plans of suicide by treating her like he did.