This hypertext interrogates the concept of a female "self," taking as its example the literary and critical case of the poet Sylvia Plath. The personal nature of her poetry and the notoriety of her suicide have combined to make conflations of the literary and the personal especially tempting to many critics--some explicitly feminist and some not. The debate over the self is especially interesting in the context of hypertext, because the medium itself challenges so many notions of how the self is constructed. Further, hypertext is useful here because the document is so concerned with sifting through the various arguments contained in the multiple critical appropriations of Plath.