Character Analysis Of Barney Stinson

Barnabus “Barney” Stinson, is one of the five main characters in the hit CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother”, portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris. “How I Met Your Mother” is about five long-time friends living in New York City and is mainly centered around Ted Mosby, who is telling his future children the story on how he met their mother. The titular character known as Barney enters Ted’s life when meeting him in the urinal at MacLaren’s Pub and insists that he’s going to teach Ted on how to live. Quickly after their encounter, Barney becomes one of Ted’s best friends even when Ted claims he’s not and initiates himself in the gang consisting of Ted, Marshall, Lily, and Robin (although she’s initiated years later). Barney is considered to be a serial

Although Gordon Allport was one of the main psychologists to focus on personality, many do not know that it was J.M. Digman who came up the big five commonly known as O.C.E.A.N or C.A.N.O.E. These five letters represent different personality traits such as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Barney would be an extroverted person seeing it as he enjoys meeting new people and enjoys socializing with those around him. He also goes out of his way to make plans for the group and tries to be the leader even though as we all know, he’s not. In accordance with agreeableness, it includes trust, modesty, and altruism. Barney proves to be the friendliest out of the group and is strangely optimistic when given any circumstance even when it’s a bad outcome. Even though he is manipulative and a womanizer, he shows loyalty and trustworthiness towards his friends (even though he may have slept with Robin after she & Ted broke up but that was a fluke). On the conscientiousness, aspect includes persistence and dependability. Barney shows a remarkable sense of persistence when wanting the gang to get involved with his antics or when he persistently asks for someone to go laser tagging with him. He also constantly utters one of his catchphrases, “Challenge accepted” when attempting to seduce women into sleeping with him. Throughout the series we witness Barney’s drive when he wants something, an example of this would be when he requested a high five from one person of the gang but no one would do it. He remained the whole episode with his hand up even while it was cramping just because he wanted something. Barney is neither neurotic or is big on openness due to his upbeat attitude and is seemingly outgoing even when he hides his feelings towards his