Exploring <i>The Diving Bell and the Butterfly</i>: Locked In but not Out.

Abstract The Main character is Jean-Dominique Bauby who was 43 and the editor in chief for the French magazine Elle . Bauby was successful, some say at the height of his career and described by many as an enigmatic, vivacious, charismatic, talented, handsome and a charmer who had the world at his fingertips and an impassioned approach to life. He led a privileged life, with a lot of it spent globetrotting and undertaking exciting adventures and activities (Glenn, 2009). Spending his time between work, social events, his mistress and his two young children.