INFP 9w1 Characters

Marie has a very strong sense of her own values and feelings, and says whatever she thinks is right, regardless of how others will take it. She is sensitive, generous, sweet, and kind, but also can be frank—she tells her great uncle that he should leave the house and not allow his past trauma to define him. “The past is dead,” she says, so he shouldn’t let that stand in the way of doing good things in the world. She hauls along her radio even though listening to it is illegal because it comforts her and makes her feel close to the professor, who speaks about abstract topics that she finds enlightening and enriching—about the light we cannot see, and the worth of the human soul. She has grown so familiar with his voice that when she meets Etienne, she knows instantly that it’s him on the radio. When she has the chance to join the Resistance, she does so without fear, convinced she can serve the cause, and then picks up where he left off, in sending encoded messages through the wires by reading parts of her favorite book aloud. She does this to work toward a greater world. Marie knows she can trust Werner without even having to think about it; she just accepts him because he helped save her life, and believes in the best in terms of his greater potential. She keeps a big picture in mind at all times, working for the Resistance and tells him not to run away, but to hand himself over to the Americans and explain his situation. She feels they will meet again. Marie both believes in the diamond’s curse. Her attentiveness to details and quick thinking comes in handy when a German demands she read her notes to him; they are actually the locations of boats, but she quotes aloud a passage from Jules Verne and says they are reading it in school and this is her homework. Marie can be quite factual in pointing out reasons for people to do things, and in believing in what is happening around her (she knows she has to hold out for a few more hours until the Americans arrive; she tells the housekeeper she must take her pills, because “who else would make me this beautiful soup if you aren’t here anymore?”). She rationally tells Werner to turn himself into the authorities and trust the system to do right by him.

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Marie believes in seeing the light in the darkness, and in looking on the bright side of things. She hasn’t seen her father in months and knows deep down (probably) that he must be dead, but she still continues to speak to him on the radio every night, give him her love, and ask him to come home. When she finds out he has been killed, she does not allow the sadness to fully penetrate her before she re-frames the situation to give her the strength to go on (“you will never be dead as long as I am alive” [to remember you]). She believes in and accepts Louis, even knowing he is a German officer, just because he helps her. And she does not see being blind as something bad that has happened to her, or as an impediment, just accepts it and learns to live with it. She trusts her instincts, but also has strong moral opinions. She lectures her great uncle about having more to do in life, and not giving up, and tries to convince him to go outside rather than coddle him the way his sister did. Marie says the “right thing to do” is to take action for the greater good, and isn’t as fearful as her father can be in some situations (she tells him it will all turn out all right).