Mr Whitaker Essay
The truth behind the disguise in Far from Heaven Have you ever found yourself in a moment, where you lied about your true feelings or kept it to yourself? Or, have you ever been attracted to someone, and you do not speak to that person but your friends know you are attracted to them? Even more so, have you ever gotten into a conversation, already knowing what you are going to say?
Because of questions like these, sociologists study the social and psychological actions people undertake in our society today. Researchers have investigated a broad amount of interesting findings and developed social psychological theories, including those that concern social influence and group processes. By using the book, Social Psychology written by Robert …show more content…
Mr. Whitaker is an individual who embodies the characteristics of an ideal self-presentation, which is an image of how you wish to be seen by others (Albright 01/29/07). Therefore, the character is hardly honest and holds an interior mystery. In the case of Mr. Whitaker, he is a married man with two children and a successful career who finally reveals his secret that he is a homosexual. This long-kept secret reveals the reason as to why Mr. Whitaker is an example to the social theory of ideal self-presentation. I quote him when he said, "I did not want to hurt you or the kids, honey." Mr. Whitaker reveals that his posterior is a complete fraud, he did so because he did not want to hurt his family but much more hurt himself. He wished to hide his true identity as a gay man because he wished to be seen as the handsome husband with the perfect family. Also during another scene between Mr. Whitaker and his wife, he mentions that he would not be able to work, if his colleagues knew he was gay. At this point, the idea of an ideal self-presentation is unmistakably proven. According to the notes from Dr. Albright's lecture, people will present themselves as a different identity, due to job interviews, etc (01/31/07). With this in mind, Mr. Whitaker most certainly proved his rehearsed or fake identity, due to the conditions of the job he holds and continued to do so until his true identity is exposed, when his wife finds him kissing another
Because of questions like these, sociologists study the social and psychological actions people undertake in our society today. Researchers have investigated a broad amount of interesting findings and developed social psychological theories, including those that concern social influence and group processes. By using the book, Social Psychology written by Robert …show more content…
Mr. Whitaker is an individual who embodies the characteristics of an ideal self-presentation, which is an image of how you wish to be seen by others (Albright 01/29/07). Therefore, the character is hardly honest and holds an interior mystery. In the case of Mr. Whitaker, he is a married man with two children and a successful career who finally reveals his secret that he is a homosexual. This long-kept secret reveals the reason as to why Mr. Whitaker is an example to the social theory of ideal self-presentation. I quote him when he said, "I did not want to hurt you or the kids, honey." Mr. Whitaker reveals that his posterior is a complete fraud, he did so because he did not want to hurt his family but much more hurt himself. He wished to hide his true identity as a gay man because he wished to be seen as the handsome husband with the perfect family. Also during another scene between Mr. Whitaker and his wife, he mentions that he would not be able to work, if his colleagues knew he was gay. At this point, the idea of an ideal self-presentation is unmistakably proven. According to the notes from Dr. Albright's lecture, people will present themselves as a different identity, due to job interviews, etc (01/31/07). With this in mind, Mr. Whitaker most certainly proved his rehearsed or fake identity, due to the conditions of the job he holds and continued to do so until his true identity is exposed, when his wife finds him kissing another