Good Will Hunting Character Traits

In Good Will Hunting, the main character, Will Hunting is shown as being a complex character. He is depicted as being brash, intelligent, and loyal. It is theorized by one of the secondary characters that due to a history of abuse and abandonment, Will uses his intelligence and aggression to drive people away so that they cannot hurt or leave him. Will is constantly portrayed as pushing and keeping people away through use of his intelligence and aggression, before he is able to grow and maintain close relationships because of the help he received from Sean, a psychologist.

In one of the first scenes, and a few later ones, Will’s home is shown. The structure is older, and does not appear to be well maintained. An old car resides in the front

Will is curious and reads constantly, studying textbooks, and other books, from the library. In studying the books from the library, he gains much of the same knowledge, at a fraction of the price, as students at prestigious universities like Harvard, as he points out in one scene. As is constantly indicated in the film, Will has a propensity to easily understand topics that the majority of other people would consider highly challenging subjects. He understands organic chemistry, which as Skylar points out, is a difficult subject, advanced mathematics, and law. Will tells a professor who had been studying advanced mathematics, and had decades of experience, that he thought it was easy, while the professor had difficulty understanding the problem. When he was in court after being arrested, he represented himself, and the judge alluded to other times that Will had represented himself in court, and had successfully managed to have the charges dropped due to his knowledge. Later in the film, Sean points out that although Will was highly intelligent and knowledgeable, that he had not lived life very much, and thus did not possess the wisdom that is only gained through taking chances, and