Some critics think of Norma Jean’s changes as connected to feminism’s influence. Do you agree?” (“Shiloh” ) 1459.
I do not agree with “Shiloh”, being an interpretation of feminism. Norma Jean probably had a predictable life prior to her husband, Leroy Moffitt, staying home from work. Being the daughter of a truck driver myself I know the independent life my mother had when my father was trucking down the road. She would be alone with us children for weeks at a time. When my father came home and attempted to interject any type of discipline or say in our day to day life it built resentment. Sometimes it was as though he was on the outside looking in. Circumstances and financial necessity created a family climate of disengagement. I believe this may be the case in Norma Jean and Leroy’s marriage. The working out and study sessions were Norma Jean adapting to life with Shiloh when for so long she had been used to only having him in pieces. Having him home forces her to evaluate the life she has chosen with this person. Before he was forced home Norma Jean could romanticize the idea of him. Now that he is home she sees her life consists of watching him smoke weed on the couch and build tinker toy homes. Seeing these things has motivated her to ask for more in her life. Whether she is a woman or not has nothing to do with it. Independent of her sex she is a person raising her standards.
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I agree with you 100%. I know many people that work in the field of truck driving, and they are way from home some times up to 2 weeks. When someone is gone that long it is very difficult to imagine your life with this person everyday.One lives a long time without them, and when that person is home for to long they begin to get a different sense of what life is with them. Norma jean did have the right to just analyze her relationship and she if this was the right person.
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