Groundhog Day again and again

     Groundhog Day is a movie where Bill Murray plays a weatherman Phil who has the job of covering the Groundhog Day festival in Pennsylvania.  Phil is forced to stay an extra night in PA due to a snowstorm and when he wakes up, it is the same day again, Groundhog Day.  This process keeps repeating and only Phil can tell that it is repeating. 
     In the beginning of his experience, Phil is trying to use these repeated days to try to make Rita fall in love with him.  Phil is using what he has already learned about this repeated day to his own benefit in how to approach certain things.  This is a selfish act on the part of Phil and he gradually begins to realize that he has a greater purpose in life and begins to utilize these insights to grow as a better person and positively interact with people around him. 

     Groundhog Day can be looked at as a metaphor for the lessons we seek from lifetime to lifetime. We learn and grow in each one as we continue to evolve.  "The trajectory of the intrusion fantasy is straightforward: the world is ruptured by the intrusion, which disrupts normality and has to be negotiated with or defeated, sent back whence it came, or controlled" (Mendlesohn 115).  In this situation, Phil has defeated the fantasy of a repeated Groundhog Day.  He has done this by making Rita fall in love with him after learning about her.  He can finally move on after "defeating" Groundhog Day.