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Small Town Methamphetamine Use In Winter's Bone By Daniel Woodrell

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Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell is a complex movie that delves into the world of small town methamphetamine use and gives the viewer a view from inside the situation. Through the story of Ree Dolly, Woodrell paints a picture of the situation through the eyes of someone who is fighting to survive in that world, and who is deeply affected by methamphetamine, but who is not a user. This tale of survival may be a fictional one, but the themes included in the movie relate deeply to Woodrell's experience, and to the very real epidemic of small town meth use. Methamphetamine affects everyone in a community where it is prevalent, and not just those who are users. In the article, “Encyclopedia of Social Deviance” Mitchell B. Mackinem and Christopher B. Mackinem states, “the users will spend much of their day finding money for the drug, seeking the drug, experiencing the drug, and recovering from the use. Therefore, normal human relationships, behaviors, and tasks become less important. Addicted users are likely to experience profound relationship problems with nonusers, lose employment, engage in minor criminal behavior, and generally experience a low quality of life.” (Mackinem 441). More than once in the movie, people offer Ree meth and continues to turn it down, yet it …show more content…

The extreme effect of meth that readers might be familiar with from the news, when a lab goes up, is demonstrated when Ree’s relative takes her to a house that was burned out by a meth fire. He tells her that it is the last place her dad was seen. The possible death of Ree’s father in this kind of scenario doesn’t seem to surprise her. This really brings home the feeling of safety that people develop when they are familiar with this type of life. To Ree, people die in these types of accidents, but not her

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