ESTP 7w6 Characters

ESTPs live so much in the moment, and are always looking for an “angle” that can help them through a situation, that sometimes they get into real messes because they aren’t exactly honest with the person they are dealing with. It never occurs to them to think about tomorrow, or next week, in terms of this relationship and where their deceit might lead them… and that’s the problem Charlie finds himself in the middle of, when he romances a beautiful Portuguese woman who won’t give him the time of day. He pretends to have visited her part of the world; he makes up a story about having had the best olive oil there (and then is fake-excited to find that olive oil in the local supermarket); he says he came here to open up a new fishing business, and he even pretends to love the dishes she makes for him, even if he can’t stand fish. He thinks pretending to be rich and having an interest in the things she enjoys (such as fish) will give him an advantage, so he is completely false with her throughout the early stages of their relationship. Being likable, persistent, and charming eventually pays off for him—but then he has to pay the proverbial piper when Celia finds out the truth and catches him in his lie. His pleas for her to let him make it up to her fall on deaf ears, because… he lied. ESTPs are quite good at mirroring people, and they can also be good at fakery—pretending to care about things they don’t, just to earn the approval of someone whose attentions they want to attract. And when their apologies and charm don’t fix it, they are at a loss about how to repair the relationship—because they forgot to care about the other person’s feelings while chasing what they wanted (that person). Fortunately for Charlie, it all works out in the end, even if he has to get a real job.

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Charlie’s friend tells him, “for once in your life, stop running away and fight for what you want,” which implies that Charlie often hits the road when life gets tough. He has spent most of his life gambling and counting cards and getting the boot out of casinos all over the world. When one of them offers him a job, he says he’d rather die than work for them—showing that he doesn’t want to get trapped in a boring job unless it’s for a good cause (later, it is, because he both gets to marry Celia and to get her a “better gig”). He’s good-natured and upfront with positivity. He thinks he can win Celia over through lies and charm, even though she has given him no reason to hope, showing the 7’s dauntlessly optimistic nature. But he also shows some 6 tendencies. He tells Vicky he doesn’t want to teach her to card sharp because it leads to nothing good, a meaningless life full of being broken and booted from establishments. He turns to his friends for support when he needs to impress a girl. Charlie second-guesses his lies and says he’s getting in too deep, and he’s worried about the consequences of his actions, but he does nothing about it. The movie shows him maturating—he learns to take responsibility for his actions and he says the most important thing in a relationship is to ensure that you are “always there,” that you need to be “steady,” showing that he has grown past his avoidance tactics and now wants to put down roots.