As Good as it gets and, Interpersonal Communication
As good as it gets tells a story of friendship and love between two unlikely people and the friendship extended to another suffering individual. In the film therefore, there are sacrifices people make in their relationships in terms of tolerating other people’s differences. This paper will examine the interpersonal relationship between Melvin Udall, Carol Connelly and Simon Bishop who are the key characters in the film.
Melvin is a misanthrope with an obsessive compulsive disorder. He alienates almost everyone he interacts with. Melvin is also superstitious and he has a pathological fear of germs. At the restaurant where Melvin has his breakfast every day, there is only one waitress who can tolerate his behavior and her name is Carol Connelly. Connelly’s suffers from chronic asthma and this could be the only reason she tolerates Melvin’s behavior because she needs the money to cater for her son’s medical expenses.
Emotions tie into larger social and cultural narratives. The rules and norms for displaying emotions affect our day to day interactions. Emotions are interpersonal based on the fact that another person’s show of emotion usually triggers a reaction from the people around. Another example of this is when Marvin offered to …show more content…
He only did it because Simon’s agent coerced him into doing it. In different circumstances, I highly doubt Melvin would have accepted to take care of the dog. However, after some time, Melvin became emotionally attached to the dog and. He enjoyed taking care of Verdell to the point where he was unable to cope emotionally with returning the dog. Melvin had also formed a relationship with his waitress, Carol and he was unable to adjust to any other waitress. This shows a lot of relationship development between Melvin, Simon and Verdell based on the fact that Melvin was able to go out of his comfort zone to help out his
As good as it gets tells a story of friendship and love between two unlikely people and the friendship extended to another suffering individual. In the film therefore, there are sacrifices people make in their relationships in terms of tolerating other people’s differences. This paper will examine the interpersonal relationship between Melvin Udall, Carol Connelly and Simon Bishop who are the key characters in the film.
Melvin is a misanthrope with an obsessive compulsive disorder. He alienates almost everyone he interacts with. Melvin is also superstitious and he has a pathological fear of germs. At the restaurant where Melvin has his breakfast every day, there is only one waitress who can tolerate his behavior and her name is Carol Connelly. Connelly’s suffers from chronic asthma and this could be the only reason she tolerates Melvin’s behavior because she needs the money to cater for her son’s medical expenses.
Emotions tie into larger social and cultural narratives. The rules and norms for displaying emotions affect our day to day interactions. Emotions are interpersonal based on the fact that another person’s show of emotion usually triggers a reaction from the people around. Another example of this is when Marvin offered to …show more content…
He only did it because Simon’s agent coerced him into doing it. In different circumstances, I highly doubt Melvin would have accepted to take care of the dog. However, after some time, Melvin became emotionally attached to the dog and. He enjoyed taking care of Verdell to the point where he was unable to cope emotionally with returning the dog. Melvin had also formed a relationship with his waitress, Carol and he was unable to adjust to any other waitress. This shows a lot of relationship development between Melvin, Simon and Verdell based on the fact that Melvin was able to go out of his comfort zone to help out his