Dali was subject to environmental significant formative influences at an early age by his parents. They spoiled him to an extreme extent and it had a major effect on the shaping of his character. “His parents, perhaps blaming themselves to a certain extent for the death of their first child, were over-protective with the second and seem habitually to have given him his own way, encouraging a pattern that was to persist until his death.”(1994, p.53) Dali would throw tantrums until he got what he wanted. His parents would give