• In “The Applicant,” Plath used hook to refer to an artificial limb, but she often associated hook with the word smile to refer to hypocritical smiles...
  • Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) is a poet whose troubled life and powerful work remains a source of controversy.
  • "The Applicant" is a poem written by American confessional poet Sylvia Plath on October 11, 1962. It was first published on January 17...
  • Sylvia Plath's “The Applicant” is a free verse dramatic monologue in which a salesperson rigorously interviews a man who has applied to buy a wife.
  • The wife is a commodity, a thing of the marketplace, and the applicant has to be the right sort of person to receive her. As Sylvia Plath herself explained
  • The Applicant” by Sylvia Plath first appeared in her 1965 collection Ariel is characterized by its sharp, satirical tone, critiques societal expectations and the...
  • Sylvia Plath. First, are you our sort of a person? Do you wear A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch, A brace or a hook, Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch, Stitches to...
  • Born in 1932 to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath published her first poem at the age of eight.
  • Poem by Sylvia Plath. First, are you our sort of a person? Do you wear A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch, A brace or a hook, Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch
  • In her remorselessly satirical poem “The Applicant,” Sylvia Plath explores the restrictive nature of 1950s gender roles.