MBTI Type: ISFJ
Annie is in awe of her favorite author, because he comes up with rich worlds into which she can immerse herself, since she does not possess the imagination to come up with stories and characters herself. She is excited to meet Paul Sheldon, and immediately takes advantage of his car crash as a reason to bring him into her home, and look after his every need. She surrounds herself with memories, pleasant little mementos, and paper clippings of her own “mercy killings” at a hospital in which she worked as a nurse, living out in the middle of nowhere and spending all of her free time reading and rereading her favorite book series. Annie seems warm and kind at first, but we see how her mental illness makes her erratic, cruel, and manipulative with her feelings. She immediately voices her dissatisfaction with the ending of Paul’s book, and demands he write another one that reflects her own wishes for the character. She easily talks about her feelings for him, and likes him to tell her similar things in return (though as an INTP, he is rather slow to recognize what she needs to hear from him; but then he provides it). Annie will do things to him, and for him, and then analyze it later and feel superficial guilt or shame for her behavior, but she spends a lot of the story trying to force him to agree with her and be in an emotional consensus with her about his own characters (this one meant so much to me, and she deserves better!). Her rationalizations are all to support whatever she wants from the situation, rather than contain any objectivity, and she doesn’t like the arguments Paul poses for the end of his series. But she also knows bad writing when she sees it, and irrational reasoning, and demands he do better, rather than be sloppy about explaining how a dead girl survived. Annie wraps herself up in another person’s fantasy world rather than create her own, and is excited to see where his plot goes, since she doesn’t do much speculating on her own terms (inferior Ne).
Enneagram: 2w1
Annie at first seems like a wonderful, sweet, generous person, who saves her favorite author from dying alone in his car, brings him back to her house, and is intent on taking care of all of his needs while he recovers. She generously looks after him, tends his wounds, and makes sure he feels comfortable during his stay. But there is also a sense of entitlement that comes with it, as we realize she is mentally unstable; she expects good treatment in return, for the author to write another book that does not kill off his heroine, and for it to be done RIGHT. Annie bounces back and forth between warm generosity and caring, being concerned for him, and being angry at him for not respecting her and appreciating all of her efforts. She opens her heart to him and falls for him, but then can’t let him go, because she has gotten so used to caring for him, so she breaks his ankles to keep him house-bound and dependent on her for a longer period of time. She also uses her 1 wing in alarming ways; she objects to the foul language in his book, and demands he burn the manuscript to atone for his sinful language. Then she recriminates herself for being mean to him, only to turn around and force him to “do better.” She rejects a lazy plot devise in his rewrite, because it isn’t good enough, and forces him to think up a better explanation for the survival of the heroine he killed off in childbirth. She also gets furious at him, for demanding things of her (better paper to write on, causing her to run back to town) and for him rewarding her kindness with rebelliousness and by sneaking around the house behind her back.
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