Biographical Description Frank Underwood is a 56-year-old American politician in House of Cards. House of Cards is one of America’s top TV shows that depict Politics in America. Frank has been staying with the game of Politics over 22 years and House of Cards only shows the part of it. He is the only son in Underwood family and is married to Claire who is also very good at Politics. On the other hand, they do not have any children. In the current season, Frank Underwood is the President of the United States. Additionally, he is the former Vice-President and the former Congressman from the past couple of seasons. He experiences difficulties with his characteristics while holding different positions. He is not empathetic with most of the people, …show more content…
A person with a lack of empathy being envious of others and believe that others envy him/her as well. Additionally, the person basically expects others to comply on unreasonable/unrealistic demands. If they do not comply, the person exhibits haughty behaviours.
Justification for Primary Diagnosis Frank has subthreshold conditions to be considered and diagnosed as Narcissistic Personality Disorder. His symptoms are usually seen in very specific scenes while he speaks in soliloquy and they well describe his personality. However, it is not clear that Frank actually has a disorder because his symptoms are mild.
His lack of empathy is well appearing in Season 1. One of the incidents in Season 1 is about the death of a teenage girl in his hometown. Her father blames Frank for causing the death of his daughter, so Frank visits his hometown to soothe her parents. However, in his soliloquy, he clearly explains that he intents to visit and soothe them for his votes, not for his condolences to the
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Clinicians may encourage him to be positive first, then may advise him to deal with the problems one at a time. Nothing is more difficult if he is pessimistic and attempts to deal with a number of issues at the same time. Objectifying the stressors is the next step to identify the difficulty of each task. The last and the most essential tool for Coping strategy is to have a good communication with others. In order for a successful communication, Frank needs to accept himself and others for mistakes rather than blaming others for their faults. If he goes through step-by-step, he will eventually have a better
Narcissistic Personality Disorder basically means that you care only about yourself and no one else but they usually have low self esteem. (Groopman)
At the end of the book, Frank learns to accept his condition and becomes grateful for what he still is able to do. Frank’s Parents: Frank’s parents spend countless hours each day helping Frank and making sure that he has everything he needs. They must learn to adapt to a selfless life of putting Frank’s needs before their own. Although this is often difficult and frustrating, they eventually come together as a family to make the best of their situation. Ruth Stein: Ruth is the mother of Meredith Stein, Frank’s girlfriend who was killed in the accident.
Frank’s mother, Dorothy loved working, but as Frank got older his father made her relinquish working to stay home and supervise Frank. Working made her feel like she could be her own woman and be free of a standard marriage of the wife just running the home. Franks states, “My mother did not work then, though she had worked at waitressing and in the bars in town-and she liked working.” (Ford 33). This reveals that she liked the constant change of people that go in and out of bars and restaurants. She felt freedom in this. Frank’s father not allowing Frank’s mother to work
Other than trying to make it day to day at their company Frank is one of the things these three ladies have in common. Frank is their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical, bigot of a boss. He lusts after most of the women under his authority at the office but has taken a special liking to Doralee, who despises him. Though despicable as a man he has just been promoted to Head of that division. He has a loving wife who ends up divorcing him to be with one of his associates. He gets another promotion and has to leave the country, he is never to be heard from again.
He uses every single penny they have at the pubs. It drives Frank mad and he loses all respect for him. Frank completely loathes his father when he upsets his mother. He makes her angry, which Frank cannot stand. “My heart is banging away in my chest and I don’t know what to do.
Frank has an interesting view on the way man has progressed morally. I think that he says that we don’t really know our morals until we have them truly questioned. In this he implies that the people who have strong morals, not only will stay true to them, but will survive. An example of this is Randy Bragg. Randy, on the day of nuclear fallout, stopped on the side of the road to help a woman. This shows that he has respect for the human race as a whole. The opposite of this was Edgar Quisenbury. Edgar valued nothing but money. In the end, the absence of money caused Edgar to become an example of Darwin’s “Only the strong” theory as he shot himself.
He’s living a double life as well, he’s having an affair with his babysitter and he is lying about it. Frank has been lying about his double life to everybody, especially to his wife. The only person he has told was Kenny and Kenny doesn’t know how to keep his mouth closed. Frank finally admits to Tub at the restaurant about his lifestyle he has been living back at home with his baby’s babysitter, Roxanne Brewer, whose only fifteen years old. Frank claims he’s in love with this young lady and admits that his wife at the time was on thirteen when they first got together. The situation that Frank’s self-absorption is dealing with is the kind where he is going to keep all the secrets to himself because he doesn’t want to be judged by everyone else. He rather keep his life a secret because he knows what the outcome would be if he tells everyone what’s really going on behind closed doors. He would most definitely be called a pedophile. By him finally telling Tub about this he finally feels like a burden is taken off his shoulders by not keeping this secret no
Opinion: Why do you think Frank has confessed at this time? What is his motive? Has he underestimated his brother, or has he estimated correctly?
Living in poverty and not being able to meet basic needs leads the characters to result to desperate measures such as stopping Frank McCourt’s education and taking a job to support the family. Frank is forced to take the job mostly because his father is an alcoholic and uses all the dole money and his wages to buy beer instead of feeding his family. Frank describes this pattern of drinking away the money by saying " When Dad comes home with the drink smell there is no money and Mam screams at him till the Twins cry."(42) This situation lasts until Mr.McCourt leaves to work in England and is never heard from again which forces Frank to take a job at fourteen years old. Frank takes on the role of the head of the family proudly and comments " Its hard to sleep when you know you know the next day you’re fourteen and starting your first job as a man." (p.309) Frank’s ability to provide financial stability leads to greater comfort and living conditions for the family.
He starts to really care for Dwayne because they both have depression in common. At one point in the movie, Frank and Dwayne were having a conversation and Dwayne mentioned he wished he could sleep till he was 18 so he could skip all the bad parts of high school. Frank then quotes a French writer, “When it gets down to the end of your life and you look back at all those years that you suffered, you will realize those were the best years of your life because they made you into the strong person you are now”. Frank and Dwayne then continued to talk about the struggles of life. Is seems to me the way Frank can reflection on his own depression can really help others. It shows that he understands what he did and that he will handle it differently next time. There were no blatant biological and psychological stressors that influenced Frank’s depression. There was no indication of past family medical problems that would have made him susceptible but according to Beck’s therapy Frank probably inherited a genetic disposition that made him susceptible to depression. If Frank wasn’t predisposed, he could have handled all of the bad events without getting mad and impulsive. He could have had a positive outlook instead of going into deep depression and trying to kill himself. The social-cultural/environmental stressors were the primary influences that cause his depression. He believed he was a full grown adult and was supposed to have his life together but it was the complete opposite. He had a romantic failure, a career disappointment, he lost his job, his homosexuality stigma, and then he lost his apartment. For most of the movie he was handling his depression really well, but it wasn’t until he ran into is ex-student/lover that his improved mood started to spiral back downward into a depressed mood. This showed he still has
According to the Mayo Clinic, narcissistic personality disorder “is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others.” Generally people that suffer from narcissistic personality disorder
In each of these four areas, the behavior can look different. For example, one style of distorted thinking can lead the person to have an inflated sense of self while another’s can lead to chronic self-loathing. This paper will compare and contrast histrionic and narcissistic personality disorders.
... the officials. The reverend helps Frank, by giving him money as well as shoes, because he was bare foot. Good Samaritans also help Frank by providing him with sumptuous clothing and bus fares to get hi m to his next destination. These smaller resolutions allowed Frank to accomplish is larger resolution to find his sister.
In order for him keep his crime spree going he had to pick up a role of someone else and perform in such way that would convince his audience into believing that he is something that he is not. Although Frank was just a young adult he knew exactly how to change his behaviors to match the setting. In one scene Frank is cornered in his restroom at a hotel by an FBI agent and forced to give up. However, his talent goes unnoticed as he convinces the agent that he is a secret service and that his one step on the case. Abigail manages to trick the FBI agent and escape once again by changing his criminal performance and picking up a new mask based on the setting and the person he was interacting with. In this case coherence increased his chances to get
As Frank Underwood evaluates each situation, he does so strategically. He is sure to take into account all known interests of each person he is working with so he can manipulate them to work to his favor. As he evaluates these variables, he is able to then make a binary decision of whether he will choose to collude with an individual or to ignore them. When viewed from the individuals point of view, this seems similar to a prisoners dilemma where the odds are never tipped in your own favor as Underwood is a man with a great deal of power and a large network from being within the senate fo...