Meet Daphne Wilder (Diane Keaton)—your typical meddling, overprotective, and divorced mother of three daughters. Two of her three beautiful daughters have married. That leaves Millie (Mandy Moore) as the focus of Daphne’s undivided attention and compulsive need to find Millie a mate. Daphne places some online advertising, screens the applicants, and submits those she approves to Millie. Along the way, Daphne meets Joe (Stephen Collins), the father of one applicant. Romance emerges and the film comes to a delightful, though expected, conclusion.

Personality Assessment: Daphne and Millie

This scene starts after Daphne answers her cellular telephone and says the person has the wrong number. It follows the frantic rearrangement of the sofa, which ends up in the same place it started. The film cuts to Millie and Jason (Tom Everett Scott) dining at his place.

1. 1. Which Big Five personality traits best describe Daphne? Give examples of behavior from the film scene to support your observations.
2. 2. Which Big Five personality traits best describe Millie? Give examples of behavior from the film scene to support your observations
3. 3. Review the discussion of the “Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument” earlier in this chapter. Assess both Daphne and Millie with the content of Table 3.3, “Characteristics Frequently Associated with Each Type.”