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Counseling How Tragedy Affects Characters in "Good Will Hunting"

The title character of the film Good Will Hunting (1997) is a young man, played by actor Matt Damon. He comes from a poor part of South Boston. Will Hunting is a charming, handsome, brilliant man with the potential to break free from the shackles of poverty, boredom, and stagnation because, as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a mathematics professor, Gerard Lambeau, discovers the staggering depths of Will's intelligence. As part of an agreement with the professor, Will must meet with a therapist/counselor to avoid jail time for an assault on one of Will's childhood bullies. Will is very uncooperative and disruptive at first, until matched with Sean Maguire, played by Robin Williams. Sean and Will are able to bond, and eventually, after some

Will Hunting is a 20-year man in the film, and thus is not a fully developed adult yet, but even at his young age, the experiences he had as a childhood are directly linked to why he is often fighting, drinking, unfocused, and willing to settle without even really trying. As a child, Will Hunting was in foster care. Foster care can be extremely painful and traumatic based on the kinds of families and home environments that foster families provide. In Will's situation, he was most traumatized in a foster home where a parent physically and psychologically abused him. For example, Will's foster parent extinguished cigarettes on Will's body, which is a reason why he feels as if he is worthless and unworthy of love, whether from Maguire, or from Will's romantic interest, British Harvard undergraduate,…

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