The film, Winter’s Bone is a story of seventeen-year-old girl named Ree Dolly. Though Ree is a young girl, she is faced with the responsibility of raising her two younger siblings because of a missing father and mentally ill mother. Set in the rural Missouri Ozarks, Ree is forced to become the primary caretaker and provider for her family. Having always been poor, Ree and her family are even closer to falling below the poverty line and becoming homeless. On the surface, the film portrays the damaging effects of methamphetamine, specifically related to poor families in the backcountry of the United States; however, the film also speaks volumes on the underlying issues of gender inequality and the feminization of poverty. Ree’s defies the
