Interpersonal Commmunication in the Movie Marty

Interpersonal communication is everywhere in society, both the past, present, and the future. “Marty,” a love story, and a movie made in the fifties, shows many examples of interpersonal communication. In this movie, the main character, Marty, who is a decent, socially awkward man who is pressured by his peers and family to find love and get married. He then gets fed up and goes to a club in town and meets a woman named Claire, who is in similar circumstances to him. Marty and Claire then interact and spend time together and Marty experiences companionship for the first time. As time goes on, Marty’s bachelor friends and his mother are expressing their disapproval of Claire. Marty then gets angry with everyone, and tells them all I like here and I have a good thing going and he does not want it to be messed up. Although the movie ends on a cliffhanger note, the assumption is that Marty and Claire will keep courting and they will hopefully get married.

First, the movie “Marty” gives insight into the various types of relationships that can develop between people. For example, the relationship between Marty and Claire is started because of one reason; they are in parallel situations with each other. In other words, they started their relationship based on the Attraction Theory, which explains that people start relationships and continue them because they are attracted to each other through the other person having great qualities and similar traits, whether physical or not. In the movie, Marty is attracted to Claire when she starts crying because her date left her at the party. In fact, when Marty is comforting Claire, she tells him that she does not have much luck with men and she has had heartbreak in the past with other r...

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...t a socially awkward man anymore after he met Claire and developed a relationship.

In conclusion, Marty becomes a better person after he has companionship with Claire. He has started a relationship with her due to the attraction theory, his and her’s self-concept is raised, and although he and Claire broke the rules of self-disclosure, they became better people. Marty was happier as well as Claire when they met each other. This classic love story describes how people can change once they interact with other people. Moreover, this is an example of how human beings in general need interaction to be normal functioning citizens of society. Having relationships, can make a person feel better about him and can possibly revolutionize or emerge a personality that was quiescent due to lack of interaction. This movie demonstrated many facets of interpersonal communication.