Analyzing Tom Stall's Low Neuroticism

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According to the history of violence movies Tom Stall runs one of those friendly little diners. He is the kind of guy everybody likes, married and, father of the teenagers (Bender & Spink, 2006). According to this movies Tom Stall indicates that positive affect is positively related to the satisfaction in his marriage and on his business before the stranger came to the town and change his mood (Bender & Spink, 2006). In addition, from the time two tough guys enter the diner to try a stickup and threaten the customers and a waitress related to bad effect (Bender & Spink, 2006). Ever though, Tom Stall takes out the two guys and ends up on the local front pages as a hero he isn’t seems happy because of his involvement (Bender & Spink, 2006). In addition, He doesn't want to give interviews or talk about what he has done, and there are strained moments in his household as his wife worries about a seismic shift in his mood, and his son can't understand …show more content…
He is low in agreeableness ‘’suspicious, uncooperative, manipulative’’ he has a secret he has been guarding for 20 years from his wife and his family (Bender & Spink, 2006). In addition, He is not named Tom Stall but Joey, is not from Indiana but from Philadelphia (Bender & Spink, 2006). Tom Stall has transformed himself so completely into a small town family man that maybe there were years when he believed the story himself (Bender & Spink, 2006). He is also high score on openness to experience and high score consciousness because he has transformed himself so completely into a small town family man that maybe there were years when he believed the story himself (Bender & Spink, 2006). In addition, the nature of Joey's early life was established by the world he was born into. His second life was created by conscious choice (Bender & Spink,

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