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Running Head: WHAT ABOUT BOB ANALYSIS OF CHARACTER AND THEORY

What about Bob: Analysis of Characters and Theories
Margaret Oliver
201340-PSY-2012-06T
Professor Leonard

Abstract
In the film What about Bob, the movie starts off with Bob Willey sitting in bed telling himself “I feel great, I feel good, and I feel wonderful.” Without these words of encouragement he wouldn’t make it through day. Bob Wiley is quite the interesting character; he suffers from so many disorders. First he is faced with ongoing anxiety issues throughout the movie. Anxiety disorder is when a “person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal,” which describes Bob’s character perfectly. …show more content…

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