Bell Jar 15-16

Esther goes to a new asylum because Philomena Guinea, the person who paid for her scholarship, hears about her in the newspaper, comes to Boston, and offers to pay for Esther to get help, because when she was younger she had to go to an asylum herself. The new asylum was like a country club in that it had golf and badminton and other activities for the patients to do. When Esther described it, she said that there was alot of the same furniture, but the room she was staying at did not have bars on the windows, like the other hospital did. Also, at this hospital, she had a female doctor, which was sort of different for her. She also had much more freedom at this hospital. If she got well enough, she would be able to go into the town and shop or see a movie. She can leave her room whenever she would like, and go out side for walks. At the other place, she would have been stopped. Also, when the doctor at the new location heard about her shock treatment experience, she was told that isn't what it was supposed to be like, and that she wouldn't have to go through that, which was good news for Esther. If Esther stayed at the other hospital, she would not have gotten any better. She would have been less likely to courperate, and then been treated worse and worse, which wouldn't have helped her at all.