Virtually incapable of action, she has become a helpless object. The piece of stiff paper or parchment, to which she feels a resemblance, becomes blank, firm, and mute, such as a decaying corpse. In addition, the electric current of her treatments represents her loss of the ability to remember or focus. 215 After her suicide attempt, she realizes she represents, not writing on a piece of paper, but the subtext within a narrative. She perceived herself as something withheld from the page rather than written on it. Overdosed, she loses contact with her own body. Removed from her environment, she dwells in a strange gap, via the underground chamber. She exists within the nuances of language, the meaning beneath the words, the things unspoken, difficult to comprehend, sometimes violent. The body she inhabits results from self imposed violence through her attempted suicide. The argument retains validity that Esther’s final question in The Bell Jar concerns the exact function of language. This question about meaning in relation to the body never receives a true answer throughout