They both try to overdose on pills they’re haunted by a recently ended engagement their deceased fathers are still present in their lives, and family relationships are strained. Haig’s protagonist has more in common with Plath’s than is explicitly acknowledged, though. At one point, Nora directly references this passage from The Bell Jar. Esther eventually deems her life not worth living. Esther can’t choose a fig and instead watches each of them rot and fall to the ground. In Plath’s novel, Esther Greenwood imagines herself at the base of a fig tree, on which each fig represents a potential life she could lead. Haig doesn’t hide the fact that his Midnight Library evokes Sylvia Plath’s fig tree metaphor in The Bell Jar. Elm, who acts as her Virgil-esque guide as she explores dozens of these lives, all while gaining a new perspective on her original “root life.” Nora is met by her former librarian, Mrs. She decides to die by suicide but ends up in the Midnight Library, a space “between life and death” that is filled with endless books containing infinite, alternate lives. The novel focuses on Nora Seed, a young woman living in her hometown of Bedford, England, who thinks she has nothing to live for. Matt Haig’s latest novel, The Midnight Library, has spent 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list since its publication in September 2020.
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