What do you think about Jenny from Forest Gump?

[Charliefretz329]

Good person

Bad person

[DaisyM23]

I think she had a shit life with shit circumstances and she couldn't come back from that no matter how hard she tried and didn't think she was deserving of the love forrest had for her - i think it's really easy to judge her when you haven't gone through what she had, i mean i haven't either and i don't particularly like her but i do feel bad for her, i do think both forrest and the kid deserved better because she supposedly died from HIV and that was probably passed down - you know what i put bad person but she's not bad, she's not completely good but she's more good than bad lol, i don't think she ever had any evil intentions

[dustybiker2]

She was living her life without much thought for people around her.

[ArrowheadSW]

Wow I'd have to see that movie again. It was 25 years ago when I saw it. I remember her but not that much. It was a good movie! I just looked it up and it came out in 1994.

[dustybiker2]

Yes. Same. I only watched it the once, but it was different enough and quoted enough through the years to stay with me.

[sirderpsalot123]

Didn't she not tell him he had a kid until she couldn't take care of it anymore. That's fucked up if I'm remembering it correctly

[sirderpsalot123]

It's coming back to me now lol

[dustybiker2]

Yes.

[Charliefretz329]

It almost made me tear up. Just saw part of it again

[dustybiker2]

Charlie 🤗

[Charliefretz329]

🤗😢

[Chazmatazz269]

She was damaged. It’s difficult to not resent her for how she treats lovable ol’ Forrest. But i think the point was that she cared enough about him to not subject him to the hell she was intent on putting herself through. Not a lot of damaged people are so mindful of the damage they leave in their wake. That’s why we say “Hurt people hurt people.”. “Forrest Gump” is more than a little bit of a fairy tale in many ways. Not the least of which is the damaged but altruistic love interest. Ell oh ell!

[BCA6010]

Terrible, but arguably redemptive.

The only good thing Jenny ever does in that movie is introduce Forrest to his son he didn't know he had rather than abandoning him before her death. Basically everything else she does is an act of selfishness.

You can call her a product of a bad upbringing, but a broad judgment of virtue is based on what she actively does herself regardless, or often in spite of circumstances.

[DextroShade]

I always say she was the villain of the film. She strings along Gump while riding the cock carousel and shooting up heroin. Then when Gump gets rich she shows up with AIDS and some other dude's kid that she passes off as Gump's because she knew his retarded ass would buy it. She is one of the most despicable villains in all of film.

[Flatmanlewis]

She was not a very good person until the end but she was a victim of horrible circumstances and self-medicating and trying to self-heal. In the end, the only thing that saved her was love. Both Forest Jr, and Forest Gumps.

[FreyaRed]

Evil. She was obviously self-destructive than she exploited this dumbie just because he was the last one who didn't kick her butt. Typical for this type of personality.

[OfMiceandMen]

I think she was a good person it's just the abuse by her father set her down a path of destruction. Tough to love any man when all you see is your abusive father in them.

[NathanDavis]

"don't idealize me... Gump"

[exitseven]

She was a good person.. She was abused as a kid so she had a screwed up view of love and relationships.

[DaveJord]

She was good person that endured a lot of bad stuff. In the end she did what was best for her child.

[OddBeMe]

Your poll is not what the writer would want. Not one or the other. Best characters are flawed. I’d say 60/40 bad person. She came around in the end and gave Forest a reason to continue.

[Anonymous]

Troubled, although I think she eventually settled down. There were limits to her affection for Forrest but clearly affection was there. She accepted him in the end. And she did create his child.

[AngryCarl]

She's a crazy ass bitch but that doesn't mean she's a bad person. No doubt the result of poor parenting. How would Forrest have turned out without his mother's support?

[DrPepper12]

It's a complicated situationship. Neither good nor bad.

[Anonymous]

Family guy crushed this.😆😆😆

https://www.youtube.com/embed/GUJZOV9pTMo

[Charliefretz329]

Lmao

[Twalli]

She was damaged. Her father sexually assaulted her.

[mickeysmonkey]

She was a good person, that thought bad of herself, she felt she did not deserve what forrest would give her

[sirderpsalot123]

I'd have to rewatch it.

[sirderpsalot123]

I decided I don't like her lol

[Charliefretz329]

Good movie though

[sirderpsalot123]

Yeah and she's a good character. She just isn't a good person

[Charliefretz329]

I felt for Forest Gump.

[strateguy632]

jenny was too selfish n rotten.

[OtterMan68]

She redeemed herself

[DextroShade]

By showing up with AIDS and some other dude's kid after Gump got rich?

[OtterMan68]

@DextroShade some other dude's kid?

[DextroShade]

She had sex with Gump only once, and the timing doesn't fit for it to be his kid. The disco guy she was doing heroin with was probably the real baby daddy, or one of the various other dicks she was riding on the cock carousel.

[jack1924]

I don't know, a damaged person

[Tstrbrainer]

A bitch