The last character Chance could have portrayed was an existential man. An existential man is someone who creates reality. Existence is created by that person and other around him or her. If a person is clever and skillful enough, he can get people to see whatever he or she wants them to see. The person is practically fooling everyone around him. He or she lives life the way it really isn t.They live life by being greedy, by making the world their playground and the people that live here, their own pawns.
Chance fools everyone in Being There. He is so powerful he can do what he pleases and that s just what he does. He begins by staging an accident by getting run over by Ben Rand s wife. What better way is there to get your needs, than to get hit by one of the most influential people in the United States. After being hit, the Rands take him to their estate. Here, Chance can fool Ben with his wit and get him to bring the president over. When Chance meets the President, he gives the president his view of the economy. The President likes what he hears, so he writes it in his speech on television and Chance becomes famous for this. This is what Chance wants, to be in the spotlight, to make his name known to everyone .
Chance then goes on national television and dazzles the audience in America with his garden and economic views. People think this depiction of the economy through gardens and the changing seasons is brilliant. It s like Chance has America eating out of his hand practically with these garden tales.
After Ben dies, it looks like Chance is going to take over for him, even taking care of Eve. But that s not all, the pallbearers, who were part of Ben s business group, start bringing up the notion of Chance as a possible presidential candidate. In Chance s mind, he knows they are thinking that. From the very beginning, he had wanted the presidency. So he insinuated himself into the confidence of the president s friends and other political figures and put awe in their minds with his intellectual ideas.
In the end Chance gets what he wants and to top it off, he seems to defy gravity and walks on water. This clarifies that Chance is so powerful, he can tamper with the laws of nature and gravity. He truly is existential.