ENFJ 9w1 Characters
Dominant Extroverted Feeling – ease of emotional communication and shaping their actions around how their decisions affect others: Noah is very good with people and in knowing how to connect to them, put them at ease, and reassure them in their doubts. His easygoing manner allows him to be open to most people and their individual perspectives, but also, he struggles to separate what he wants from how it will cause them to view him. He wants to be head rabbi, but can he still do that while dating a non-Jew? Which means that because he loves Joanne, she needs to convert in order to make their relationship “okay.” He goes to great lengths for a time to hide her from his family and friends, including asking her to wait for him outside the temple while he deals with the dozen or so mothers who want to introduce him to their daughters; he hides her at summer camp, when his boss shows up. And he is forthright with his feelings, addressing them the instant he feels or thinks a certain way. He admits that he likes to receive positive attention and goes out of his way to solicit it.
Auxiliary Introverted Intuition – strong and accurate specific insights, plans, or predictions, and a singular state of mind: Noah is fairly lofty in his ideals and his thoughts, always referencing his beliefs and coming up with thoughtful takes on things that are unusual and/or at times deviate from official doctrine (traditionally, a rabbi should not date a non-Jew and should not engage in premarital sex, yet he is doing both). He has only ever had one career in mind and is forever thinking about his future, how this relationship might play out, how to get Joanne to convert, and wants to know what her thoughts are about God, organized religion, etc. He is quite good at sensing her true intentions and/or insecurities and bringing them up for discussion in a way that feels unthreatening (Fe/9).
Tertiary Extroverted Sensing – trying to act on what exists by living in the moment and hands-on-learning: He loves the camp where he is a counselor, because he had so much fun there as a kid, learning how to do things and having his fist girlfriend. Noah can also be impulsive, leaping into bed with Joanne on their first date, then carrying on a whole affair right under the nose of his rabbi and congregation. He changes his plans on a whim to suit her needs and agenda, ditching his dinner date to help her find a vibrator in a sex store, then making her dinner with what he’s got around the house because the restaurants are all closed. He’s an excellent cook.
Inferior Introverted Thinking – critical under stress, can get hung up on the “logic” of things: Noah spends some time soul-searching and thinking about the consequences of his actions, but more often chooses to connect with others directly through conversation, wanting Joanne to open up and confide her secrets in him, and by being accessible.
Enneagram: 9w1
Enneagram 9 – desires freedom from others’ influences, by going along with them and being tolerant, until it matters not to: Noah has a tendency to go along with everyone else, just to avoid any kind of conflict or judgment. He wants to hide his new relationship with a non-Jew to avoid disappointing his rabbi superior. Prior to this relationship, he’d been seeing a woman for several years with whom he felt comfortable, but not emotionally fulfilled. It’s hard for him not to please everyone around him, and go out of his way to accommodate them, even when he would rather be anywhere else. Joanne tells him at one point that it’s OKAY to push back against people, argue with them, and assert yourself, it’s not a sin and doesn’t make you a bad person. Noah has a very open-minded and permissive view toward most behaviors, which manifests in his own shall we say “lax” morals. (He is fine with going into a sex shop, messing around with dominatrix gear, and chill when he runs into one of his temple members, but then freaks out about it later, and feels relieved to find out the man is cheating on his wife, because then he won’t expose Noah.)
1 wing brings in a desire for moral rightness and perfection: A good deal of Noah’s time and efforts go into making value judgments, determining what he thinks about things, and deciding whether something is right or wrong, based on what he feels rather than an objective perspective. He can occasionally call people on their bad behavior and doesn’t like to tolerate liars, but also questions whether he has done something bad a few times.
