INFP 4w5 Characters

Emily sees the world through her own subjective opinions. She’s deeply emotional and mostly pours all of her passion and feelings into her poetry and writing; it is unfathomable to her that Charlotte might stop writing altogether or consider it a “childish” thing to do, since it’s all she cares about, her lifeline, and gives her a way to say the things she cannot find words for in real life. Emily rarely does anything she doesn’t want to, nor is she all that concerned about her wider reputation (she wants her father to love and approve of her, but doesn’t mind others calling her “strange”). She tells no one the truth about her romantic attachments or her love affair, does not want others to read her poetry uninvited, and spends all of her time writing and inventing stories, coming up with fictional characters, and thinking/talking about them. She easily entertains herself with these things and can write about things she hasn’t experienced. Emily is also writing multiple things at once (poems, a “silly” adventure story, and a more “serious” novel). In writing Wuthering Heights, she draws several scenes and situations directly from her own experience, such as spying on their next-door neighbor and her brother being caught. Her interior Te can be brutal. Several times, she reads others the riot act, cruelly denigrating their literary efforts and ambitions or raking them across the coals for being boring, moralizing, or pathetic. She’s angry and doesn’t care either how her words affect them, or whether doing so in a certain space is appropriate or not (she insults Charlotte at length in French in front of their father, who cannot speak it, and her lover, who can).

Enneagram: 4w5

Emily is quiet and marches to the beat of her own drum, but also has no problem ripping apart “bad literature.” After her beau breaks up with her, and her brother foolishly asks her what she thinks of his new chapter, she brutally tells him that the characters are clichéd, the plot is predictable, and its pretentious idiocy from someone who is too blind to recognize what a terrible writer he is… and then she doesn’t apologize for it for several weeks. Others find her “strange” and say that her poetry and stories are morbid, unnatural, even “evil.” Emily doesn’t care. She calls things like they are, as seen through her eyes, including raking Charlotte over the coals for being prissy and boring. When Charlotte says she cannot stand Wuthering Heights, because it’s full of “amoral and awful/selfish people,” Emily retorts, “Good!” She wanted them all that way. 4s don’t have super ego judgments about “good” and “bad” the way 1s do (and Charlotte is a moralistic 1w2). She criticizes people who have no brains and do not think for themselves, or who “blindly” accept whatever a pastor or even God says, showing her 5 wing’s tendency to trust her own thinking. Emily is arrogant about her skills and her intellect, seeing herself as smarter, more talented, and a better writer than others in the family. She is incredibly withdrawn and introverted, never wanting to meet new people or go places, often ducking out halfway through and even asking Charlotte if she can stay in her room for the duration of a friend’s visit. Emily sits apart from the others and reads, rather than takes part in their games, until they ask her to don their mother’s mask. Then she scares them all.