The poem acts as a warning from an elder film actress with experience to a younger naïve scarlet. Hittinger uses intense detailed imagery and symbols to create this image of what the life style of a scarlet is like. The speaker, Dietrich, gives us direct markers of to whom she’s refereeing to in the text when she states, “you arrived, tipsy, a bit chartreuse/ a subdused platinum angel.” Monroe had a bit of a reputation of representing this sociality party girl, which was a life style that Marlene was very aware of because she played into that narrative in the 1920s in Berlin. The imagery of the “platinum angel,” is an allusion to the iconic platinum blond hair that Marilyn Monroe wore throughout her life. In this same line we are introduced to the “white mink,” that will create paradox and be
The poem acts as a warning from an elder film actress with experience to a younger naïve scarlet. Hittinger uses intense detailed imagery and symbols to create this image of what the life style of a scarlet is like. The speaker, Dietrich, gives us direct markers of to whom she’s refereeing to in the text when she states, “you arrived, tipsy, a bit chartreuse/ a subdused platinum angel.” Monroe had a bit of a reputation of representing this sociality party girl, which was a life style that Marlene was very aware of because she played into that narrative in the 1920s in Berlin. The imagery of the “platinum angel,” is an allusion to the iconic platinum blond hair that Marilyn Monroe wore throughout her life. In this same line we are introduced to the “white mink,” that will create paradox and be