The Monroe Fantasy

Jan Knowlton (Letters, April 8), who extends a comparison of physicist Stephen W. Hawking with Marilyn Monroe, calls the actress “a model of the universe” because she “was raped, pillaged and manipulated, yet she adjusted.” Monroe also self-destructed. The only thing she “adjusted” to was male sexual fantasy. But since she met that need so well, at the expense of most of her own needs, perhaps suicide becomes incidental.

KATE McFADDEN

Arcadia