The Grinch’s Personality The movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a holiday favorite everywhere. It showcases the true meaning of Christmas, being happy and being together. The main character, the Grinch was originally from Whoville but has secluded himself up on the mountain because when he was a child he was mistreated by his peers. He was an angry spiteful who. He now has come into town and to try and ruin Christmas but when little Cindy Lou Who tries to welcome him back in, he goes through a personality change and his heart that was two sizes to small expands to two sizes too big. The Grinch’s personality can be evaluated by the Psychoanalytical, Humanistic, Trait, and Social-Cognitive Perspectives. The Psychoanalytical Perspective is based on the idea that personality comes from the unconscious and experiences when young. It was started by Sigmund Freud and he believed bits of the unconscious could slip out through dreams, jokes, or slips of the tongue. The Grinch was mean and angry about many things in his life, this part of his personality developed this way because when he was a child in school he was made fun of. The other kids were mean to him and so in turn he became mean and angry and this became ingrained in his unconscious and a part of his personality. The unconscious is divided into two parts, the Id and the SuperEgo, and both play different parts. The Id stores unconscious energy and is present at birth but the SuperEgo doesn’t develop until age 4 or 5 and prevents a person from doing morally wrong things. Most people would agree that yelling at, screaming at, and putting little children into sorting machines is morally wrong. These are all things the Grinch did to Cindy Lou before Christmas. He did these things because his SuperEgo was never fully developed. When he ran away from society in elementary school, he was cut off from society so