Small picture - Because Alex always sees the bigger side of things, he often doesn't see the little things. He's alright at reading social cues and the like for the most part, but he has difficulties scaling back things like his enthusiasm: when he and his wife are giving a speech at a work conference he plows on with his theories and instead of stopping once the crowd starts laughing or trying to rephrase, he plows onwards.
Tunnel vision/workaholic - Alex loves what he does and is very good at it, but all of that hard work and determination has a price. One of Alex's biggest faults is that he sometimes overdoes it. He's been seen in the film working way past when he probably should stop and sleep, for example. He doesn't neglect his family per se, but his fixation is certainly a detriment. He only has two levels: family time or work time, and nothing in between.
Snap decisions/calculated risks - When Alex makes instant decisions, it often doesn't go as well as he'd hoped. Rather than tell his wife he’d found out how to tesser, he simply did it and was trapped in a dark dimension for four years. When the IT was trying to take his children he focused only on the immediate safety of Meg, leaving a brainwashed Charles Wallace behind. Despite his reasoning, he still very much abandoned one of his children despite caring deeply for both of them.
Fallout - Captured in Camazotz, Alex has dealt with a multitude of mind games. He will be dealing with the mental fallout from this situation.
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Small picture - Because Alex always sees the bigger side of things, he often doesn't see the little things. He's alright at reading social cues and the like for the most part, but he has difficulties scaling back things like his enthusiasm: when he and his wife are giving a speech at a work conference he plows on with his theories and instead of stopping once the crowd starts laughing or trying to rephrase, he plows onwards.
Tunnel vision/workaholic - Alex loves what he does and is very good at it, but all of that hard work and determination has a price. One of Alex's biggest faults is that he sometimes overdoes it. He's been seen in the film working way past when he probably should stop and sleep, for example. He doesn't neglect his family per se, but his fixation is certainly a detriment. He only has two levels: family time or work time, and nothing in between.
Snap decisions/calculated risks - When Alex makes instant decisions, it often doesn't go as well as he'd hoped. Rather than tell his wife he’d found out how to tesser, he simply did it and was trapped in a dark dimension for four years. When the IT was trying to take his children he focused only on the immediate safety of Meg, leaving a brainwashed Charles Wallace behind. Despite his reasoning, he still very much abandoned one of his children despite caring deeply for both of them.
Fallout - Captured in Camazotz, Alex has dealt with a multitude of mind games. He will be dealing with the mental fallout from this situation.