Marilyn's Role As A Role Model

While her new husband James was in the Merchant Marines, she took up a job in the Radioplane Munitions Factory. During this time a man by the name of David Conover snapped a photo of her and encouraged her to apply to the Blue Book Modeling Agency, so she signed with them and dyed her brunette hair to a golden blonde. She became one of this Agency's most successful models. James found out what Marilyn was doing while he was away, he wrote her several letters stating that she would have to give up her modeling career when he got back, Marilyn saw her chances in modeling and acting and decided to divorce him when he returned from overseas in 1946. Ben Lyon had then noticed Marilyn, he was a 20th Century Fox executive and was extremely impressed by …show more content…
The Archetypal God-Teacher is Lyon, he brings the gift of money and fame. The Deus ex Machina is her fame and fortune. Other helpers include, Grace Goddard, she was the one that co-signed the contract for Marilyn, her agent Harry Lipton, Darryl Zanuck, who approved of her screen test, and many more. The First Threshold is her first modeling gig. Now, after all this and moving into the future her modeling and acting career was going good but The Belly Of The Whale was just herself, she was a profoundly sad person, which makes sense. She is one of the world's most desired women, yet she could not find her own happiness with a man. She was incredibly famous and her own mother did not even know who she was, and wanted a family but was unable to maintain any pregnancies. Back then, there was no social media or reality TV, the public had no clue of her unhappiness, the main priority of her image was protecting a happy look. She thought of “Marilyn Monroe” as a whole different person than “Norma Jean”, like she was a personality she could turn on and