The Bell Jar: Chapter 11-12

During this part of the book Esther goes to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Gordon. Esther hated Gordon for many reasons. The main reason is because she felt he really didn't care about her problems...he just saw her as money. Major evidence for this was when she first walked into his office she saw a picture of him and his family smiling. She saw that and thought, how ridiculous is it to tell this happy functional person my problems. One thing Dr. Gordon did for Esther was the shock treatments. It seemed like he simply wanted to do these "treatments" in order to make Esther feel better. Once she thinks she's better, he can take her money and send her on her way. This made Esther absolutely hate him. Dr. Gordon definitely wasn't helping Esther.