Jane Carlton
Garden State is a film that could have been written as a metaphor for a Nine’s awakening. The central character, Andrew Largeman, has spent his life drugged into a state of numbness. We find out that this is because he pushed his mother in a fit of anger as a child and in a freak accident caused her to become a paraplegic. It’s a story about someone who has had to repress every emotion along with his anger and is consequently not really present in his own life. As he says to his fa...
Subscribe today (returning users login) to access more of this article as well as the entire Enneagram Monthly archive.
