If someone tells you that you are stupid and dumb enough times, chances are you will start to believe it. If you are someone with no stable and loving family to fall back on, or no partner who believes in you, or no close friends who are in your corner, your self-worth relies entirely on the strength of your self-belief. This can be difficult to sustain, and it is understandable that some form of self-doubt would begin to creep in. Why is impostor syndrome an important point to consider when thinking about the literary life of Marilyn Monroe? The answer is that Marilyn’s reading formed a concerted effort to overcome any inadequacies she perceived in her-self. She strove for progressive self-betterment with an engaged and inquisitive mind. But to fully understand the literary life of Marilyn Monroe, we need to understand why she felt those inadequacies.Article continues after advertisement
Marilyn had no supportive parents to tell her how well she was doing. One husband, Joe DiMaggio, interfered with, and tried to control, her career. Marilyn’s closest friends usually doubled as employees. In other words, she often paid those she was closest to. If anyone was going to believe in and champion Marilyn Monroe, it was going to have to be herself, and she often did a pretty good job of this. Coming from the background that she did, she took on and worked her way up through the Hollywood studio system to become one of the most famous women in the world.
