Didion learned from watching John Wayne and his films that women seemed to be ignored. As we saw in the trailer, the character Mary, played by Martha Hyer, tried to stop an Elder brother from getting into danger and causing violence, but he did not seem to listen anyway. After reading Didion's essay and watching the trailer of the 'Sons of Katie Elder', Didion learns what it means to be a man and what there role is. She has always seen John Wayne as "driving cattle up from Texas, and bringing airplanes in on a single engine", and looked up to him as an adventurous, daring man.
Growing up in the 90's, music was very popular. Particularly the Spice Girls in my case. My sister, best friend and I would obsess over all of their songs and play dress up and pretend we were them performing concerts for thousands of people. The Spice Girls was about the only all girl band I really knew about at the time and I thought they were unstoppable. I felt when I would dress up as Baby Spice or Scary Spice, people would look at me as unstoppable. To this day, I still own their CD's, have been to their reunion concert several times and still continue reenacting some songs with friends.
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