MBTI Type: ESTP
Sophie convincingly pulls off playing an ENFJ sort of character as a psychic, but in reality it’s a scam—she is far more interested in going out at night, dancing, shopping for clothes, going swimming, and halting a trip to taste the food off a fruit stand on a mountain road. She’s aware of what the world offers and eager to take part in it, as she points out to Stanley. He gives her a book by a philosopher and she tries to read it, but admits she hasn’t understood “almost anything it talks about,” but she is still witty, charming, and intellectual enough to debate Stanley on intellectual points of logic. She argues people need to believe delusions to make them happy and points out that his happiness when he thought more existed than just what is obvious is a rational reason to embrace something other than the facts about life. They feed all her intuitive insights to her, so she doesn’t show much in the way of intuition. She has been making her living as a con artist (and a mildly successful one; someone caught and exposed her at it “fairly quickly”). Though Stanley is incredibly rude, she still likes him and doesn’t take most of what he says personally, showing a level of detachment a feeler would struggle with. Sophie appeals to his emotions and convinces him she is a successful psychic, but then feels guilty about deceiving him and wants to apologize, but only after they’ve gotten caught. She points out all the logical reasons she should marry a rich, handsome young man who could take her around the world, and then turns around and picks Stanley, by her own words, a cranky bore, instead, because she loves him and he loves her, and they’ll just make it work. Sophie is extremely charming, easily able to win over other people and convince them she has their best interests in mind. She has no real sense of her own moral values and has become a con woman to keep her mother happy. Sophie doesn’t really care for the young man who is courting her, but puts up with him out of being polite and to not hurt his feelings. She doesn’t have any individual emotions in play in the situation, so much as she thinks about things, and then tries to decide what to do about them. Sophie admits she feels guilty about misleading Stanley.
Enneagram: 6w7
It’s also hard to know what her genuine personality is, because she’s faking it most of the time—but I’d say she is in the head center. She’s witty and thoughtful, has zinger comebacks, and points out where Stanley is being irrational or hypocritical. She also doesn’t really know what she wants, since she can’t decide between him and a wealthy man attempting to court her (aggressively). In a rather passive manner, she goes along with an engagement she doesn’t want, and then seems to ask permission from others to change her mind (wanting Stanley to declare himself before she decided). Sophie also shows attachment in that she sort of fell into her life of pretending, because it made her mother happy and she needed the money, implying that she does a lot for other people out of a felt sense of obligation for their welfare (super-ego). She has a witty and funny side that wants to look on the bright side, is bored and annoyed by Stanley being a pessimist, and she rationalizes you ought to allow yourself to be irrational to find happiness in life. She also has a negative attitude toward Stanley’s pretentiousness and ideas about himself as being superior to everyone else (something 6s hate).
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