Marilyn Monroe Dbq

Although, Monroe did not have an easy life growing up. She spent most of her life in foster homes and an orphanage, as her mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe, was not mentally, nor financially prepared for a child. The identity of Monroe’s father is unknown, seeing as her mother was married twice but divorced both before Marilyn was born. Marilyn had two half siblings from her mother. Her sister, Berniece, whom she had not known about until she was 12 and had not met until she was an adult. Her brother, Robert, who passed away in 1933 of kidney failure as a result of Tuberculosis of the bone. When Gladys put Marilyn in the fostering care of two Christians by the names of Albert and Ida Bolender, Gladys lived with them to care for Marilyn herself. In 1927, longer shifts at
She ended up being place in an orphanage in September of 1936. Grace became her legal guardian and took her out of the orphanage in June of 1937. Marilyn lived with the Goddards once again, all the way up until November… As Mr. Goddard molested her. Marilyn ended up moving in with Grace’s Aunt in Los Angeles in September of 1938. She started school and ended up living with the Goddards once again, until Mr. Goddard’s job required them to move out of state. California laws prevented Marilyn from leaving the state of California, thus the probability of yet another orphanage. That is when she decided to marry her first husband, 21 year old James “Jim” Dougherty, at the age of 16. Marilyn ended up dropping out of high school to become a full time housewife. Her marriage was not horrible, but was not strong either. “My marriage didn’t make me sad, but it didn’t make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn’t because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.” Marilyn stated. After Dougherty enlisted in the army, Marilyn moved in with his parents and began working at a