Esther Greenwood cycles violently between the Jackie and Sissy POVs. As a guest editor in New York, she performs Jackie—graceful, promising, poised. But her internal Sissy watches this performance with disgust, calling it a "cow patty." Her breakdown is the collapse of the Jackie mask, forcing a raw Sissy POV that ultimately, through writing, reclaims a new form of stoic agency.
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