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Marilyn the Mystery

            Sitting back watching the hit television series Mad Men, I have reached the second season now and one of the interesting topics was the death of the superstar Marilyn Monroe. Every woman in the office was crying about her death and suggested suicide. I have since read three articles about her legend and the fandom that is associated with her. It has been decades since her death but there is a fascination with her beauty, her fragility and her position as a fashion and popular culture icon.

            What’s the fascination? She is beautiful, but there are many beautiful women in this world who don’t hold such mystery and such rapt attention from fanatical onlookers. Upon closer inspection I have seen her as a dumb poopsie in the past, her role in some like it hot being my only frame of reference for her when I was younger. She has philandered with a married mad, drugged herself and remained this beacon of beauty. Her fragility seems to be a factor, but I feel that a more important factor to her mystery is the mystery itself. It is always more fascinating when someone cannot be pinned down. Opposed to Lady Gaga or Madonna, Marilyn did not need to shock so very much to seek attention. Her existence was more understated, which motivated others to want more. Such a woman was born to cause a ruckus, without even asking for one.

            Her subtlety seems to be the key to her beauty and her fragility makes her relatable to every person. The reason that she is the ultimate fashion icon is because she is all smoke and mirrors like fashion itself. It seems that we may never know the whole truth, just the story that was presented.