Carrie Traits

The character I am choosing to use for this assignment is Carrie, from the movie Carrie (2002). I chose Carrie due to the fact that she displays herself throughout the movie as someone who is full of anxiety as well as depression. Based on what I learned from trait theory in class, a personality trait is usually consistent over time. Through the character Carrie, I believe she falls directly into the Big Five Personality Traits and Carrie’s would be neuroticism. Trait theory explains Carrie’s behavior of being neurotic due to the fact that she is a high school student with a very low self-esteem, doesn’t seem to be able to have a lot of friends or even interact with her peers on a daily basis. Carrie also shows to have a high level of anxiety throughout the movie as well. …show more content…
Her sensitivity to stress and her reaction to anxiety is apparent when she begins to scream hysterically as her fellow girl classmates throw tampons and laugh at her. Her anxiety is apparent here as she overreacts to something that is completely normal, although she believed she was dying. Carrie’s depression and resistance to attention within neuroticism is also apparent as she is constantly walking around school with her hair in front of her eyes while constantly looking down, in order to avoid eye contact with her peers and teachers. In addition to, Carrie shows her resistance to attention from others as constantly is speaking in such a low volume, you would consider it to be a whisper. Carrie further shows her feelings of depression and being blue as she did not at all seem happy throughout the film and spent most of her time crying due to the fact that she was often bullied by her classmates and rather than having positive interactions she always spent time