ESFP 3w2 Characters

Barbie is a stereotype at the beginning in that all she does is party, have fun, and think about doing her own thing; but her Se also comes in handy later when she confidently decides to go to the real world (a place she has never been) and meet people, and change their minds. For the most part, she’s content at first to live in a world without questioning anything she sees or experiences, or even paying much attention to thoughts that are deep or meaningful. She admits that it’s not like her to be all philosophical and she doesn’t care for it, because those thoughts are confusing and depressing, but Barbie is actually very profound and insightful at times, when she chooses to access her low intuition in a meaningful way (this shows the most when she tells Ken he needs to figure out who he is as separate from her, and make his own identity). Barbie is fashion-conscious and cares a lot about how she presents herself, but is also oblivious to anyone’s feelings but her own. Ken goes out of his way to impress her constantly, but since she feels no attraction for him, she rebuffs him all the time, ignores him, devalues him, and makes him feel bad about himself – but she never means to, it’s just because she’s lost in her own agenda. She tells a friend that she doesn’t want to hurt Ken, even after he stole her life and her Barbie dream house, and her entire society (because it’s a core value of hers, that feels important despite his actions). Her low Te comes out in her bluntness; she can be very rude without meaning to be, as she shuts Ken down or tells him to get lost. Barbie eventually learns to become more attentive to his feelings, and has a lot of compassion for him when he breaks down – but she still isn’t interested.

Enneagram: 3w2

Barbie shows a fascinating 3 arc in that she goes from being a super confident doll to a depressed one who literally falls over onto her face and won’t move off her front lawn, until people motivate her. She does not know who she is outside of being a “Stereotypical Barbie” and has played the role to perfection. 3s can get lost in their own persona, and not know what their usefulness is outside of that, so when she starts having negative and depressing thoughts, getting cellulite, and walking on flat feet, Barbie wants to do anything she can to get rid of all that so she can be Stereotypical again. She confidently decides to go out into the “real world” and see all the wonderful effect Barbie has had on it, and is shocked and horrified to encounter the real, messy reality of things. When the teenager who has rejected her does so again to her face, Barbie falls apart, cries, and doesn’t want to be here anymore, but then bounces back and figures Mattel can fix everything for her. After she returns home and finds Ken has taken over her life, she moves into a 9ish apathy and depression that means she literally does nothing. Once she snaps out of it, she has to make her own decisions, form her own opinions, and chooses to live in the real world as a human, so that she can do “good” even if it means getting old and wrinkled one day. She has moved a little bit out of image-managing into embracing the tough realities of the world, and wanting to change it for the better. Her 2 wing makes her assume she is wonderful, helpful, useful, and everyone’s favorite and it’s hard for her to wrap her head around anyone seeing Barbie as anti-feminist or having “ruined” their life.