Honey West Character Analysis

A Character profile of Honey West in "Honey West: This Girl For Hire" by G.G. Fickling

Personality:

Honey West’s personality is a highly socially interactive woman that has exploits her sexual prowess as a means of gathering information from her clients and potential suspects. More so, West is an intelligent woman that is capable of solving problems with logic and reasoning. These personality factors define the sexual active and highly motivated social acumen that West utilizes as a private investigator working out of Hollywood. Honey West has many of the traits of a “protector”, since she becomes a private investigator to seek revenge for the death of her father. West as a strong intuition about people, which allows her to manipulate them through sexuality, charisma, and guile when investigating cases for her clients.

Physical Description:

Honey West is a blonde and athletically fit woman. West has all of the attributes of a “fashion model”, which makes a highly attractive and charismatic woman. The “hour-glass” shape of her body is one facet of her physical description that makes sexually

Of course, West is the prototypical Germanic blonde that is being idolized for her beauty and charisma in the mode of a fashion model. In American culture, the promotion of Barbie dolls (based on blonde German women) were a popular culture phenomenon in the 1950s and into the 1960s. West is the stereotypical “blonde’ that accomplishes her goals through the allure of sexuality and beauty. These aspects of beauty and sexually promiscuous behavior are part of the allure of American pop culture, which has identified the “blonde’ as the most desirous female archetype. G.G. Flickering certainly promotes the stereotype of the “blonde” in the character of Honey West, which makes her a very common female figure in American