Norma Jean built a character called Marilyn Monroe with which to flee from her past and achieve success. She gave shape to that S- myth that she ended up objectifying, leading her to drift into depression, illness, and bad companies.
In 1961, and a year before her death, Marilyn Monroe wrote a six-page letter to her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson. She did it from a room in the psychiatric hospital where she was. In it, he told her of the glimmer of hope that was growing in her again. She was aware of the journey of excesses that she had embarked on and she knew that she had to make a change and focus her life in another way.
Depression, low self-esteem, insecurity, and even a high intelligence quotient. Much has been said and written about the personality of Marilyn Monroe, or rather, Norma Jean; of that woman behind the myth that she knew at a given moment, to build a character to survive in the film industry.
Now, the ending in which she led continues to raise immense enigmas. For many, it was a combination of various factors: mental illness, the mafia, and the political elite of the time... Books as interesting as Marilyn Monroe: a case for Murder tell us about it. Be that as it may, her wake, her golden memory, continues to arouse both interest and mystery in us.
“Just now, when I looked out the hospital window, where the snow had covered everything, suddenly, everything is like a dull green. The grass, shabby evergreens, though the trees give me a little hope, the desolate bare branches promise that maybe there will be spring and maybe they promise hope, said Marilyn Monroe.
From the cage in the factory to the cage in Hollywood
Laureate for her physical appearance in a few years in which women transcended on the screens basically because of her erotic trial, Norma Jean appeared in the Hollywood studios to escape a life as a worker in a factory. Her greatest aspiration was to escape everything she was known for and become an actress.
Mental Illnesses and the Search for protection figures
With a past marked by S- abuse experienced in adolescence together with a genetic history in which there were ancestors with mental disorders -in both maternal grandparents and in her own mother-, Marilyn Monroe's life showed an ideal psychological framework to develop everything type of affective disorder.
One of the most interesting traits of her adult personality, especially in the last few years before her death, was her eagerness to be around intelligent and artistically literate people, authorities she would recognize as parent figures. that she never had.
Among these personalities, it is worth highlighting the playwright Arthur Miller. She shared many years with him, enough for Marilyn to start writing poetry and reading novels.
Although the information has been extracted about her culture and her intellectual level, probably through images such as the photograph in which she is very interested in the novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce, Arthur Miller would affirm at the time that he never h saw her finish a book.
Of course, he does not deny her intelligence. What's more, those who knew her highlight one aspect of her: she was able to build a character behind which to hide. She even gave him a peculiar timbre of voice, a childish tone that for many was irresistible. Naivety was her mask, but behind that packaging, she hid an intelligent woman.
