An essential component of any such storyline is that they evoke intense responses from the audience. The Hero’s Journey is one of the most prominent of these stories and has several distinct stages - going on an adventure, facing a crisis, emerging triumphant, and then returning home victorious. The notion of a “Hero’s Journey” comes from Joseph Campbell, the legendary mythologist, who believed all cultures have certain universal archetypes. Smashing through so many glass ceilings, Serena showcased the female counterpart of the Heroes Journey, formerly the domain of only men. Last, but not least, rather than performing sedately and demurely like dancing the waltz, she attacked with the ferocity of a raging bull.īy her audacity, she ripped off the gentile facade of women’s tennis, exposing it for what it truly is, “boxing without punches,” as aptly described by ESPN senior writer Howard Bryant. “With the exception of boxing, there is no other sport as viscerally clear and unsentimental about victory and defeat.
She has stood out not only because of her class, color, and shape but by her fashion awareness, rejecting chaste, white tennis outfits for sexy originals in flamboyant color. She deserves to be celebrated as the victorious hero who conquered the rarified world of tennis, formerly the realm of only the lily-white upper crust. Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at.
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