It could be my own literary-driven algorithm, but everywhere I turn on social media, I keep seeing the same, often misconstrued, metaphor from Sylvia Plath. Esther, the disturbed heroine of Plath’s ubiquitous novel The Bell Jar, summarises her fleeting concept of fulfilment through the metaphor of ‘the fig tree’. “…I wanted each and every one […] The post Babe, You’re Not a Fig Tree! first appeared on The Badger.
