First and last for The Bell Jar

Ending, appropriately, on Esther's exit interview from the asylum.

(Also, I get why Esther hated Buddy Willard so much but I never did until the end and his "Who's going to marry you now?" remark. She was still in the asylum and Joan had hung herself. Insensitive remark, even worse timing.)

First:

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

Last:

The eyes and the faces all turned themselves toward me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.