Bill Foster: Falling Down. Foster is a man on the edge. On the face of it, he’s a model employee. He’s highly skilled and very loyal. But, if you dig deeper, you’ll see he’s over-doing it. He’s devoted himself to his work so much, it’s affected his family life. His demands that nothing is acceptable but absolute perfection will be hard to live up to.
Foster is also very temperamental – to the point of hostility to those who don’t see eye-to-eye with him. He’s also a pessimist, seeing the worst in every situation and dwelling on past misfortunes. Some might say he’s living in the past and relying on outdated values. This failure to accept the modern world could leave him redundant if he can’t change with the times and that’s the worst thing that could happen, because he lives for his job.
