INFJ 4w3 Characters

Helen is a master schemer, who turns up at Ernest’s house years later with a plan as to how to murder his wife and get away from it. She has thought it out so completely that she knows every step of how they will do it, and how they will fool the police and get away with it—and she is incredibly angry when Ernest “deviates from the plan” and they have to improvise (she shows up at his house with shovels and a tarp, intending to bury Mads in the desert). A thousand times, Helen could have had a different life, but she could not stop thinking about Helen and how to destroy her, get back the man she took (not for himself, but out of the principle of the thing), and come out on top. She spent years working toward that purpose, after the years she wasted on over-indulgence and fantasizing about Mads’ death. And it was never about really loving Ernest, just getting her revenge. Rather than let therapy cure her, she took away from it an idea that the therapist never intended—stop wallowing and over-indulging her low Se with binge-eating junk food and gaining excessive amounts of weight, and get even. Her Fe is unhealthy as well; rather than use therapy as a place to heal, she constantly complains and talk about how much she hates Madeline. But she pretends to like her whenever they meet, and is polite to her. She uses emotional persuasion on Ernest to sell herself to him as a potential partner and try to convince him to kill his wife, by talking about how they will have a wonderful life together. When he’s about to fall to his death, she tries to persuade him to drink the potion for his own survival (really, she wants him to do so for her). She has bottled up her feelings for a long time (for the sake of appearing polite), but when she finally sees Mads, she lets all of them out, along with attacking her with a shovel. She and Mads team up to ensure he remains in their life, without either one of them really caring about him otherwise (she dumps him pretty quick). Helen is quite logical and has thought these things out carefully; but can be impulsive under stress. She just decides to dump the body and bury it, since their plan got foiled anyway, and hope the cops won’t find them, then run off with Ernest. She gave up her life for an eternal one, with no thought of what would happen later. Helen gets into a fight with Mads in which they beat each other up with shovels. Then she realizes if they want to stay looking young, hot, and sexy forever, they will need to look after one another. Forever. She is also obsessed with her appearance and uses her beauty to try and lure Ernest away from his wife.

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Unhealthy 4s can never move on from slights or insults, and they let their frustration and longing drive them into self-destructive behaviors, because of their inability to let go of their envy for what others have that they lack. Helen could have moved on from Madeline and had another life after Madeline stole her finance, but she chose to dwell on her losses, her disappointments, and her resentment instead. In fact, she set herself up for disappointment and pain when she introduced Ernest to Madeline, knowing full well that “Mads” had stolen every man from her before. She refused to let therapy heal her, and used it as a place to complain about Madeline, then as a catalyst for revenge. As she stuffed her face with tinned frosting and gained weight, she watched Madeline die in a movie over and over again, and that spurred her desire to make it happen. She shows up hell-bent on revenge, determined to take Ernest away from Madeline (she seems to care more about that, than actually loves him). But the instant she has him back, she doesn’t want him anymore except to provide “maintenance” for her appearance. She becomes very vain, but also highly assertive in how she pursues him, challenges Madeline, and tries to convince him to “drink the potion” so “we can be together… forever!”