INFP 6w7 Characters

Walter is brimming over with emotion, but he doesn’t easily share it. His mother’s frequent abandonment of him, her routine changing of boyfriends, the lies she tells him about where she is going, wears hard on him. He desperately wants to connect and finds a quiet bond with his uncles, who offer him much-needed stability. Upon meeting the lion, Walter immediately forms a bond with it, giving it a personality and naming her Jasmine, as his way to connect to Hub. He is not always sure of where he is going, but is very interested in most things, seeing their potential and putting connections together, even with sparse evidence. Hub purchasing an airplane immediately puts in his mind the (correct) assumption that he intends to build and then crash it, rather than die of old age. Walter has a good read on people. He embraces the belief that whether something is true does not mean you have to refuse to believe in it. Walter convinces his uncles to give all the traveling salesmen chances, to open themselves up to spending some of their hordes of cash. He becomes invested in all of Garth’s stories, and it’s his larger-than-life versions we see playing out on screen, full of bravado and daring. His lack of stability has made him insecure and fearful, prone to bolting in difficult times, and emotionally distraught. He is used to being abandoned and lied to, and expects others to treat him in similar ways to his mother. He is happy to stay on the ranch until he grows up. As an adult, Walter takes his childhood experiences and turns them into a successful comic strip. Pushed too far, Walter tells his mother the brutal truth: she cares more about herself than him, and he needs her to do something good for him for once, and that she always picks loser boyfriends. He often acts on his feelings—running away when scared, lashing out, and committing to ill-thought-out plans of running away.

Enneagram: 6w7

Walter’s mother considers him to be afraid of everyone and everything, and it’s true. He arrives at his uncle’s house intimidated by both of them, scared of Hub and his temperamental moods, and terrified of the dogs and pig that run rampant around the farm. His solution to his problems is often to either seek affirmation from an authority (he calls his mom to beg her to come get him when he’s upset, only to find out she has lied about her decision to go to college and abandoned him) or to run away. But once Walter has more stability, he becomes more sure of himself, more willing to trust people, and encourages his uncles to open themselves up to bigger lives. Under his enthusiasm, they talk to salesmen instead of shooting at them, and wind up purchasing a lot of cool stuff with their hordes of cash. Walter is very curious about both of them, but also not sure what to believe about them; he is suspicious of them, but also feels better when Hub tells him that something doesn’t have to be true for him to believe in it. So he chooses to believe that they really traveled all over the place, and win their money by deceiving a sheikh, rather than swallow a story about them being famous gangsters and robbers who ran with Al Capone. His 7 wing increases his vivid imagination and makes him excited to hear more of Hub’s story; he also wants happy endings and it devastates him to learn that Jasmine died in childbirth, since he wanted her and Hub to “live happily ever after.”