Assessment of Gordon Gekkos Personality Using a Mbti...

The aim of this essay is to assess Gordon Gekko character ‘s personality from an Oliver Stone’s Movie â€Å"The Wall street, Money Never Sleeps† using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) framework and Personality Type Theory. THE MBTI The MBTI is an instrument designed to evaluate people and provide descriptive profiles of their personality types. It classifies people into sixteen broad and distinctive personality types based on Carl Jung’s theory of perception and judgement. The MBTI model was developed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Meyers. The two women shared a passion for better understanding the human development. They believed that prediction of people’s patterns of behaviour and finding the keys that would†¦show more content†¦Type B personalities are contradictory to Type A. They can be described as easy-going, friendly, calm and relaxed people. They usually work at steady pace and hard to get frustrated, generally lacking sense of urgency. These people are ideal team members and easily led by their leader. Gordon Gekko can be characterized as a Type A personality without any doubt. In the first half of the movie, Gordon Gekko is shown as a man in his late fifty’s, who is released from the prison after being poisoned for insider trading and fraud. Ten years behind the bars have not changed his nature and he has no regrets about his past. He is still that practical, greedy, aggressive and ruthless person who could go to any extent for his long-awaited return. In the subsequent half, Gordon’s character evolves to a much more sensitive person who tries to reconcile with his only child, Winnie. Gekko’s estranged daughter blames him for all the sorrows, for being constantly absent and ignorant to his wife and children. All his attempts to make amends with Winnie fail. He then decides to persuade Jacob to help him out to make peace and repair a damaged relationship with daughter. Gordon intentionally uses Winnie’s fiancà ©e to achieve his goal by breaking the promise. Nevertheless, after some time he realize that Winnie, Jacob and his ne wborn grandson are the priority and the most important people to take