Social Inventions Of Marilyn Monroe

Years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is still talked about. Marilyn Monroe is a social icon, many people adore her. She was known for being Marilyn Monroe, but her real name is Norma Jeane Mortenson. No one remembered her as Norma, they remember her as Marilyn. She still is a role model for many. However many people should realize Marilyn’s life wasn’t so normal.
As a child Marilyn never knew her father, Marilyn’s mother Gladys was taken away. Gladys was a schizophrenic who spent years in and out of psychiatric hospitals, Marilyn was virtually abandoned, raised by various foster families (Keshner). While in foster homes Marilyn was raped on several occasions she admitted that when she was 8, and 11 she was sexually abused. Marilyn decided that only way out was to get married. When Marilyn was 16 she got married to her boyfriend Jimmy Dougherty. During the war, she went to work in a factory that made
What people remember her as is a “ sex goddess” so to say a sex symbol. That made her important because during her time people had an idea of how women should act and dress. Marilyn did her own thing, she went against people's expectations. With her going against the rules that helped shape how women are viewed and how they can dress and act even today. She might have broke the rules and did her own thing, but that was for show. There are pictures of her smiling and being happy; Monroe is putting on a front for her audience but what the audience didn't know was, in her last weeks to months, Marilyn was also consuming, if not abusing, a great deal of other barbiturates (amytal, sodium pentothal, seconal, phenobarbital), amphetamines (methamphetamine, Dexedrine, Benzedrine and dexamyl—a combination of barbiturates and amphetamines used for depression), opiates (morphine, codeine, Percodan), the sedative Librium, and alcohol (Champagne was a particular favorite, but she also imbibed a great deal of Sherry, vermouth and vodka)