attention he now receives as a result of his new found celebrity status. Charles not only demonstrates the Lewis, Chernettepage #4same group think phenomena as Herbert, but he stereotypes Herbert to be weaker then he and therefore not trust worthy or a good loser to Goodwin. Through out the movie Charles protest being given the answers by the producers. He rationalizes it by requesting to be given the questions to him and then looking up the answers. Eventually pressure from his fans and his longing to escape his fathers shadow made it easier for him to conform. Because Charles shows a great deal of cognitive dissonance he takes on an impression management role. Role playing and changing his attitude made it more acceptable to keep playing the game. He wants to be seen as a person who is capable of creating his own fame. But personal feelings of guilt kept interfering. When Charles loses on the game show on purpose he is trying to maintain self-control. He feels he can get out of the whole ordeal but is not let out by the producers. He then signs a contract for a new show. In the end Charles realize that he could not stop the inevitable which was the congress committee inquire and he stated, to the board “I've stood on the shoulders of life and I've never gotten down into the dirt to build, to erect a foundation of my own. I've flown too high on borrowed wings. Everything came too easy.” Lewis, Chernettepage #5Charles realized that although we are sometimes persuaded to do thing we do not want to ultimately we are responsible for our actions right or wrong. Goodwin who is also Jewish can not believe that Van Doreen cheat on the show so he focuses on bring down the network with out implicating Charles. Dick (Goodwin) uses self-serving bias to keep Charles in the clear. Dick knows that Charles received the answers but he does not want to admit it to anyone, if he does then his hero is gone. He is even called...
