ISFP 2w1 Characters

Elizabeth is very sensitive, emotional, and easily hurt when she finds out that her wedding has to be postponed so the men can drive the cattle up into the mountains; they will be spending a couple of weeks away. She gets upset about this and flounces into the house, but when Cora explains to her that marrying a cowboy means the cattle always come first, she is more forgiving and wants to make up with Jack (leaping off a moving buggy and stumbling to reach him). Later, when asked about her feelings on a more serious matter, Liz chooses not to discuss them; she says it’s awkward for her to do so, and easier for her to show people how she feels by doing something (baking a cake!). She does not discuss her miscarriage in any way, with anyone, instead holding that in her heart. Liz is enamored of progress and the new things in town, and chooses to sleep with Jack outside of wedlock in her excitement; she initially won’t let him into her hotel room, but then changes her mind. She can be somewhat impulsive and changeable in her feelings, hating him one minute and loving him the next. When months have passed and he still has not married her, she tells him to make up his mind, or she will go home across the country to be with her mama. They later have to get married, to legitimize their potential baby (Cora says ministers are very good at math and back-dating marriage licenses, to which she shows delighted surprise). It’s hard for her to be objective or fully rational, though; she doesn’t prioritize their survival (the cattle) over her own desires (her wedding) at first, but gradually comes to accept this as the ‘way things are.’

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All she seems to want is to be in love, and to be loved; Elizabeth is desperate for closeness and needs Jack to tell her ‘I love you’ more often than he does; she feels compelled to stay with him even though her mama wants to take her back east, because he needs her. And she quickly makes herself useful around the ranch, helping out with chores and learning the ropes so one day she can be a proper wife. Though she makes a lot of impulsive decisions, she also wants things to be done ‘right’ and legitimate; to be married so she isn’t sleeping with a man whose name she does not share, and for their child to be legitimate in the eyes of the church. Jack and she say vows ‘before God’ but she still wants a piece of paper to prove it to the world.