Do women spend a disproportionate amount of time learning about how to improve their physical selves or looking in the mirror? What impact does this have on women's self-esteem? Plath explores these questions and the importance women give to their reflections and how this image helps to either build or destroy their self-esteem in her poem, 'Mirror':
A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Read Rebecca Lee's insightful response to Sylvia Plath's poem, whereby she defends the prevalence of selfie culture in modern times: click on this PDF link to read it.