Gilmore Girls · Season 1, Episode 17, "The Breakup, Part 2"
Lorelai's party advice: The Bell Jar
Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham)
Gilmore Girls · S1 E17Sleuthed by @shelfsleuth
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What it tells you
Rory, freshly dumped, thinks about going to a Chilton party. Lorelai suggests she stay home and read The Bell Jar instead, since it would have the same effect. Harshest book review in the series, and it comes from her mother.
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The book
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 1963 · novel
Plath published it in England in 1963 under the name Victoria Lucas, and it didn't come out in the US under her own name until 1971. The book is a lot funnier than Lorelai's joke gives it credit for.
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