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Twelve Angry Men Sometimes in life your professions reflect on your
personalities. Twelve Angry Men is an example of where this occurs. Twelve men
are brought together in a room to decide whether a boy is guilty of killing his
father. Whether they brought good or bad qualities from their profession, they
all affected the outcome. The leadership skills of Courtney Vance, the
compassion of Dorian Harwood, and the opinionated Tony Danza affected the
actions and decisions in the jury room. Courtney Vance is a high school football
coach; his position in the jury room is a foreman. On the football field, Vance
acts as a mediator, a leader, and an organizer. As a foreman for this trial,
Vance definitely carries all those traits into the jury room with him. If it
were not for Vance, there would not have been any order in the jury room. He
acts as a coach in the jury room as he formed fine lines of respect. He acts as
a mediator for all of the arguments that went on in the jury room. Every time,
Vance is there to calm everyone down and gain back order in the room. His
leadership skills also shine in the jury room as well. He controls and leads
every discussion, speaking order, voting, and demonstration. Vance takes on the
leading role and handles it well.
He also brings organization into the jury room
by organizing the juries, the discussions, and the votes. With the excellent
traits that Vance brings into the jury room, he allows the trial to run smoothly
and effectively. Dorian Harwood’s profession as nurse also shapes his actions in
the jury room. In the jury room, he acts with compassion and respect. As a nurse
he does the same. His compassion lies in caring for another. He relates that to
the trial by thinking of the boy as one of his patients. He wants him to have a
fair chance at life, and therefore wants him to have a fair trial. In the jury
room, he acts with respect because he is very unsure about the case, and really
does not know how he feels about things. So when it is his turn to talk he
passes to hear the others before he makes the wrong assumption. With these
actions he shows a lot of respect for not only the boy on trial, but also to the
other juries. Harwood definitely shows compassion and respect in the jury room,
and all of these strong traits come from his experience as a nurse. Tony Danza,
a salesman, definitely brings his working traits with him in the jury room. As a
salesman, he is impatient, opinionated, and rude. Tony does not care about
anyone but himself. He shows that he is very impatient by not even thinking
about the trial but rather the baseball tickets that he has for that night. He
just wants to get out of there as soon as he can. He is very opinionated and
that definitely stands out in the jury room. He does not care what anyone has to
say. He has his own beliefs and does not care or want to hear anyone else’s
views. He is also known to be rude, because he shows no compassion or thought
towards the boy on trial and he just wants to get it over with. He does not even
stop to think that someone’s life is on the line, he is too concerned about his
own. Tony’s profession does not give him the best qualities, as he does not have
the best qualities in the jury room. Courtney Vance, Dorian Harwood, and Tony
Danza are three men who are shaped by the professions in which they live. Their
professions give the men certain qualities, good and bad, that they carry with
them into other parts of their lives. Each man shows these qualities in the jury
room and they affect the actions and decisions that are made.
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