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Decades after Marilyn Monroe’s death, there was a burst of speculation abou
Decades after Marilyn Monroe’s death, there was a burst of speculation abou
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2024-10-03
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Decades after Marilyn Monroe’s death, there was a burst of speculation about what she might have been doing if (and it is a very big if) she had not met a premature end from an overdose in 1962, at the age of 36. The American writer Joyce Carol Oates, whose recent novel B/on& is a fictionalized version of Marilyn’s life, thinks she might have left Hollywood for a successful career in the theatre. The feminist commentator Gloria Steinem, who has also written a book about the actress, imagines her living in the country and running an animal sanctuary. I have to say that these imaginary careers, and many other things that have been suggested about Marilyn in recent years, fall into the category of rescue fantasies. The point about her life is that it went hideously and predictably wrong, with self-destruction always a more likely outcome than a revival of her acting career as an interpreter of Chekhov or an early conversion to the animal rights movement.
This is not to denigrate the woman herself, whose story seems to me genuinely tragic. Hers is a dread/ul catalogue of abandonment, abuse and a desperate re-invention of .the self in terms that successfully courted fame and disaster in just about equal measure. Fragile egos often invited other people’s projections and Marilyn came to see herself, in her own words, as "some kind of mirror instead of a person". This is half-perceptive, in that what she actually became in her lifetime was a blank screen on which men could project their fantasies and anyone who wants to understand what kind of fantasies they were has only to look at Norman Mailer’s creepy biography, with its drooling images of Marilyn as a vulnerable child, incapable of saying no.
What she is unlikely to have anticipated is that, four decades later, thoughtful women would look at her image and see, perversely, a reflection of themselves. Ms. Steinem has been reported as saying that she thinks Marilyn’s experiences might have pushed her into embracing the women’s movement. But Marilyn was a male-identified woman, a product of a virulently misogynist culture that was erotically stimulated by the pairing of beauty and brains -- but only as long as women did the beauty while men got to direct movies, write plays and run the country. That Marilyn played this role to perfection, then loathed it and rebelled against its limitations, hardly needs saying. [br] The author mentions Norman Mailer’s biography in order to
选项
A、point out the nature of biographer’s work.
B、indicate a source of male projections.
C、counter Marilyn’s view that she was "some kinds of mirror instead of a person".
D、illustrate that Marilyn is extremely popular with biographers.
答案
B
解析
推断题。根据文章第二段最后一句,玛丽莲的人生犹如一个空白的屏幕,上面投射着男人们对她的幻想。要知道这种幻想是什么,只要翻阅一下Norman Mailer在玛丽莲的传记中写下的话语即可。因此B 为正确答案。作者并不是以此来说明传记的本质和特点,所以排除A ;作者并未以此来反驳玛丽莲关于自己是别人的镜子的论调,而是证实了这种说法,所以C 予以排除;D 与题干没有直接关系。
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