22. Plath was left hugely disappointed by her time in New York City and the experience plunged her into a dark depression
For most of her first and second years at Smith College, Plath edited The Smith Review. In her third year, she was invited to be a guest editor on Mademoiselle magazine, an upmarket women’s magazine based in New York City. She accepted the offer without hesitation and moved to downtown New York for a month. She spent much of the time trying to meet her idol, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, even hanging out in his favorite bar. However, she left New York disappointed. The whole experience left her profoundly depressed. Plath entered one of the darkest periods of her young life.
