Groundhog Day Phil Rnor Character Traits

When watching the movie Groundhog Day you notice the main character Phil Conner is going through life day by day without looking forward to anything, this is part of his character. He is a Pittsburgh TV weather man who has been appointed to cover the annual event of Groundhog Day in Penxsutawney, Pennsylvania. With this event Phil is unhappy because he is an arrogant man that thinks everyone is beneath him, so why should he cover this event. He feel that he shouldn’t be the one reporting about a dumb event which is Groundhog Day. With that you notice that Phil Conner is maladaptive middle age man with a narcissistic attitude, due to this he cannot have a “normal” relationship with others. He doesn’t know how to develop a relationship with someone without making them feel less than him. He’s hard to deal with and his personality does not help him become a better person. His coworkers don’t get along to well with him and he is hard to deal with. But when he finds

Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychologists that saw people as growing with their experiences on past life events. The self-concept is what constructs our personality which are characteristics that we label ourselves with when referring to our own personal behavior. When looking at Phil Conner’s he thinks himself to be a man that’s too good for everyone around him. You can see that he doesn’t like wasting his time with people such as Ned Ryerson who he walks away from on his first day in Penxsytawney. After living a couple of days on Groundhog Day he starts to play with people and ends up sleeping with a girl and telling her that he loves her. He starts getting the benefits of reliving the same day over and over. Also there comes a point where he calls himself God, he believes that he is God because he is reliving the same day over and over and he knows all the people at the