Marilyn Monroe Analysis

Blonde Bombshell Goes from Orphan to Model

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they 're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together” Stated by Marilyn Monroe. In the book Marilyn Monroe the biography, by Donald Spoto the author does an amazing job highlighting Monroe’s confident personality even through the struggle of her career.

To begin Monroe’s struggle started truly two weeks after the beginning of her life. Two weeks after Gladys Pearl Baker gave birth to Norma Jeane Mortenson (later re-named Marilyn Monroe) she gave her over

Her mother gradually got sick both mentally and physically which lessened her ability to care for Monroe even more. She was then sent to an institution for orphans and was visited solely by her mother’s friend Gracie. Monroe stated “If she was “almost perfect,” she may have reasoned, why she was abandoned” (47)? Of course this is an understandable thing coming from a women with her background.

Survive, that’s the key. Monroe used men in order to make it in the world in which she would not have else survived in. With a woman of her past she had no constant relationships, this made it harder for her to form them. Monroe was called many names and embarrassed by many people who were ignorant to understand her situation, or to get to know her past. The author writes, “At times she offered her body as well as her time and attention to men who might help her”

This led to crudeness and sexual harassment in the workplace during her career. Marilyn stated in defense to her bosses comment on how she “cranked herself up for a scene” “I don’t crank anything, I’m a model T. Excuse me, but I think that’s kind of disrespectful to refer to it that way. I am trying to work at an art form, not in a manufacturing establishment” (543). Thank goodness Monroe could stand up for herself because without that with all she was already forced to deal with she would be even more depressed. One way that Monroe could have chosen an alternative route would have been to put her passion more into her work that into using men for attention this would have ultimately eliminated most of her problems. For example she would not be known for some of the things she did such as her affair with John F Kennedy. Monroe could have started her career earlier if she had put more focus on that then her next attention