The Bell Jar Ch. 11-12

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

Esther doesn't like Dr. Gordon for a number of reasons. The first main thing that she doesn't like about Dr. Gordon is that he tries to hard to show that he has a perfect family with a beautiful wife, kids and a nice dog. She also believes that Dr. Gordon is too attractive to even be a therapist. A therapist shouldn't show off all these things to his clients. Another thing that makes her not like Dr. Gordon is the fact that he cannot understand Esther's life and what exactly is going wrong with her. Dr. Gordon really isn't helping Esther the way that he should and this is making Esther mad. After doing a lot of evaluations Dr. Gordon finally says that Esther needs shock therapy and that he needs to go to his facility to do it. It seemed that the shock therapy did more harm to Esther than anything and at the end Dr. Gordon is hurting Esther more than anything.. It is a sad thing to see but I believe Dr. Gordon is just trying to make money off Esther and he doesn't understand her real problem.