Frank Mercer Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Frank Mercer? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Frank Mercer from Matchstick Men 2003 and what is the personality traits.
ENTP (7w8)
Frank Mercer personality type is ENTP, and the is quite similar to his older brother. They do not have the same interests and tastes, but they both use their bodies and brains in the same way.
New York City has become a place for Mercer's family to escape from their often tense home life. His stepfather is an alcoholic who sometimes hits his wife and son, and his mother is a controlling woman who is often depressed. At home, he feels like nobody really understands him and that he is not good enough. He is interested in the arts, especially dance, but his mother does not understand why he would want to go to college for ballet.
At school, he is interested in the New York City art scene and wants to start an art magazine to help support his family. He is also interested in computers, and he is the only member of the class who learns about computers before anyone else. He is very smart, but he does not show it to the teachers, since he does not think he belongs there.
He goes to an experimental school where he feels that he can be himself. He has a best friend whom he also often fights with. Once he makes up with him, they become inseparable.
Frank Mercer, was the editor of the 1935 reprint of Charles Burney's A General History of Music, 2 volumes, published by G. T. Foulis. The American edition was published by Harcourt Brace in 1935. This edition was reprinted in 1957 by Dover Publications, of New York. What drew Mercer to work on Burney remains to be discovered. He did his research in the library of the British Museum and the music library of the University of London. Dr Percy Scholes sent him a proof copy of his book The Puritans and Music. The education departments of several Record Companies loaned him records. In his work, he was much assisted by his wife. Miss Burney, of Wandsworth, allowed him to copy and include a number of Charles Burney's letters, which were in her possession. Mercer was very painstaking in his work. His own footnotes are prefixed with an asterisk and show his profound reading of the literature.
