BIBLIOGRAPHY CHRIS GARDNER’S PERSONALITY TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE IN GABRIELE MUCCINO’S THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS MOVIE (2006): A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH.

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SYNOPSIS

The Pursuit of Happyness movie is based on a true story about a man named
Christopher Gardner. It is a movie by Gabriele Muccino, an Italian director. This
movie tells about the struggle of man hopes happiness in his life. The story takes
place in San Francisco, 1981. Chris Gardner has invested heavily in a machine
known as a "Bone Density scanner". Chris must sell this machine for pay rent and
daycare but Chris does not sell it. This financially breaks the family, bringing
troubles to his relationship with his wife Linda, who leaves him and moves to New
York where she has taken a job in a pizza parlor. Their son Christopher stays with

Chris because he and his wife both know that he will be able to take better care of
him. Without any money or a wife, but committed to his son, Chris sees a chance to
fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, offering a more promising
career at the end of a six-month unpaid training period.
During that period, Chris goes through a lot of hardship personally and
professionally. When he thinks he is "stable," he finds that he has lost $600 when the
government takes the last bit of money in his bank account for taxes. He is rendered
homeless because he cannot pay his rent. He is forced at one point to stay in a
bathroom at a train station, and must scramble from work every day to the Glide
Memorial United Methodist Church, which offers shelter to the homeless. He must
leave work early every day so that he is there by 5:00 in the evening along with his
son so that he may be assured of a place to sleep.

In Dean Witter, there are nineteen other candidates for the one position. At the
end of a six-month he is called into an office and in it were the heads of Dean Witter.
Chris thinks that he is about to be told the job will not be his as he says that he wear a
shirt and tie for his final day. Then they tell him that he has been an excellent trainee
and that tomorrow he will have to wear his shirt and tie again as it will be his first day
as a broker. Chris struggles to hold back tears. This little part is called Happiness.
After beginning his career at Dean Witter, Chris Gardner built the investment firm

Gardner Rich in 1987 and Chris sells a minority stake in his brokerage firm in a
multi-million dollar in 2006.