Forty-year old carl is very proud that he has the fastest car on the road and the finest house on the block, but feels lonely and isolated when he goes home to his family. carl is likely to be in erikson's stage of development.

Carl is likely to be in erikson generativity versus stagnation stage of improvement. More in psychology, generativity versus stagnation is the seventh of eight stages of theory of psychosocial development. The generativity denotes to creation of mark on the world over considerate for others as well as creation and achieving things that make the world a better place.