The Bell Jar Ch. 7-8

What does Esther want from Constantin? How does he react? What do you think of his reaction?

Esther doesn't like the fact that Buddy has been with so many women and that he has had a lot of sex. Esther wants to feel equal to Buddy and for her to do that she wants to have sex with someone. In this case she wants to do this with Constantin. When Esther first discretely mentions to Constantin that she wants to have a close relationship with him he isn't somewhat shocked and he reacts in a negative way. From Esthers point of view Constantin believes it isn't the best thing to do but culturally he feels different about it. At the end though Esther is disappointed of Constantin's final decision. She feels as if he is in some way letting her down and that no one wants to have sex with her. I think that his reaction is appropriate though because they aren't ahead enough in the relationship to do this. I feel like the main reason Esther wants to jump into this is because of Buddy..