ENFJ 7w8 Characters
Dominant Extroverted Feeling – ease of emotional communication and shaping their actions around how their decisions affect others: Lizzy is aware of social hierarchies and where she fits into them, and easily able to put people at ease, or say things in a way that flatter them and conceal their social awkwardness, such as with Georgiana, after she notices her anxiety at hearing people discuss Mr. Wickham (she rushes over to turn the piano page music for her, and asks, “how can you play with no one here to help you?”). She cringes at her family’s behavior and faux pas in public (her mother’s loudness, her father being insensitive, her sisters “making us a laughingstock”) and hates to admit it, but can see why Mr. Darcy dismissed them all as common. Lizzy is quick to judge others by their interactions with others; she shames Darcy for not dancing with girls at the ball, even though he knew none of them, because there were too many ladies and not enough gentlemen to go around. She holds a grudge against him not only for shunning her at the ball, but being an impediment between Bingley and Jane and for ruining her sister’s happiness. She quickly articulates her feelings, both in politeness when the situation calls for it, and in moral outrage when she calls Darcy out for his actions toward her sister, and his marriage proposal, which offended her family members. She only feels comfortable visiting Pemberley when she thinks he won’t be there, and is apologetic to have intruded on him when she discovers him on the property. After Wickham runs off with her sister, she is still polite but distant with him upon their later meetings.
Auxiliary Introverted Intuition – strong and accurate specific insights, plans, or predictions, and a singular state of mind: Lizzy knows it’s best for Lydia not to go to Brighton, even though she doesn’t know what could happen there other than she will “make us all ridiculous.” She is much faster than Jane to see the implications of their sister’s elopement and how it will change all their fortunes for the worse, and to comprehend the Bingley sisters’ desire to push Jane out of their brother’s life (she sees them as selfish and mean, which Jane does not fully comprehend for a long time, and then admits that her sister was ‘quite right’ in her estimation of them). She assumes they are behind Bingley leaving the county. Lizzy also tends toward singular conclusions about people, based on their treatment of others, which causes her to dislike Darcy at first, until he lays out all the facts of the situation to her and makes it apparent that she was wrong in all of her assumptions; then, she changes her mind about him, gradually over time, until she falls in love with him.
Tertiary Extroverted Sensing – trying to act on what exists by living in the moment and hands-on-learning: Lizzy does not show much Se except in her general enjoyment of walking and the great outdoors. She loves to travel, be in company, go dancing, and is somewhat hasty in her desire to go places, see people, do things, and even to hurry home after her sister’s “misfortune.” She is happy to wander around in the mud without concern for her hemline.
Inferior Introverted Thinking – critical under stress, can get hung up on the “logic” of things: Her true problem lies in her inability to question any of her own motivations, feelings, or conclusions; Lizzy does admit she was wrong about Darcy, after he proves himself worthy of her affections. After she discovers the truth about Wickham and Darcy, she reevaluates her own emotions, realizes she is in love with Darcy, and then discovers how foolish she was in turning him down.
Enneagram: 7w8
Enneagram 7 – a playful and quick-witted optimist who stays in constant motion and is always looking to the future: Jane Austen’s heroine is of a “lively disposition” which sees the humor and comedy in most things, except when her feelings get involved, and then she takes little digs at people who offend her (“We should make fun of Mr. Darcy, to punish him! Mock him!”). Most of the time, she takes a half second to think about something and then can turn it into a joke for her own or others’ amusement—being silly about her marital prospects, mocking Darcy at the ball, drawing attention to how he didn’t dance with anyone, putting down her own musical abilities, and even finding it in her to forgive some of the slights against her family, because of the “winning disposition” of the offender involved, even though she also holds him at a distance due to his crime of seducing her sister and trying to ruin her family. Under stress, Lizzy can also show her line to 1 in how critical she is of Darcy and others for their decisions, and how she berates herself briefly for her behaviors, but she generally has a positive self-view, and does not like to be proven wrong.
8 wing brings in gut-energy to assert themselves to get what they want, and a fearless ability to defy others: Lizzy’s 8 wing easily emerges when provoked; she stands up to Lady Catherine and never fears her, even when the woman tries to browbeat her; she angrily informs Darcy that he is the last man on earth she would ever consider marrying, because he has been so abdominally rude and ruined her sister’s happiness; unlike Jane, Lizzy has a brutal view of things, she understands that Lydia’s behavior is going to taint them all by association, and that she has been a “little fool.” She’s furious to read Darcy’s letter and find him unrepentant in some of his actions with Jane and Bingley, but also is forced to admit he has a point about the unpardonable actions of her entire family.
