Hypotheses of the bird's personality: The phoenix is a bird that is very easy going. Nothing seemed to bother it, no matter what is going on around it could adjust to it and be just fine.

Support 1: "The heating was turned off; but it puffed out its feathers against the cold, and seemed none the worse."

Support 2: "Other birds were put into its cage, birds of peevish and quarrelsome nature. They pecked and chived it; but the phoenix was so civil and amiable that after a day or two they lost their animosity."

Support 3: "Lawks!" cried a woman in the crowd. "He's at it!" -- as the phoenix prepared for its death in front of all these people it was not bothered by them.