Marilyn Monroe: An All-American Sex Goddess or Hollywood Tragedy? When someone mentions Marilyn Monroe, one usually thinks off the seductive all-American sex goddess who captured the world with her woman-childlike charm. Yet not many know her as the illegitimate child who endured a childhood of poverty and misery, sexual abuse, and years in foster home and orphanages. Most people don’t realize that her disrupted loveless childhood may been the main reason to her early …showed first 75 words of 1149 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1149 total…iginal amount. On August 5, 1962, she was found dead of an overdose of sleeping pills at the early age of 36. There has been much speculation about the events surrounding Marilyn’s death. “The drug overdose was probably accidental and possibly administered by someone other than Marilyn.”(MarilynMonroeBiography,-http://tombtown.com/bios/marilyn.htm.) In conclusion, Monroe’s was a tragedy in which her public, the media, and the Hollywood power brokers all share blame. Bibliography INTERNET