Bell Jar #2

Esther gets out of chemistry in college by asking the dean if she could take the class without getting a grade, so that she could take a Shakespeare class. This was obviously a complete lie. While she was suppose to be taking notes she was actually writing poems instead. She might find science overwhelming because it is very systematical, which isn't how her brain works. She' a literature person. Science, especially chemistry, can be very confusing and it seems that Esther is confused about herself a lot of the time. She doesn't even know what exactly she's dong in New York. Therefore, it's not a surprise that she would find the sciences so overwhelming.