INFJ 2w1 Characters

Charlie has full faith in her hunches, which are startlingly accurate; she has spent her day pondering when we first meet her, and musing on that their lives are dull and need to change, which makes her think of her Uncle Charlie – as she finds out, they thought of each other in the exact same moment, and he is coming to see them (the same thing she wanted him to do). She thinks they are identical, alike, that she knows him intimately without even spending much time with him. When he makes a boat out of their father’s newspaper after dinner, she accurately assumes there’s something in the paper he did not want them to see—about him! When men comes to the house to do a ‘survey,’ after spending some time with them, Charlie accurately intuits that they are detectives investigating something. She is determined to find out something “nobody else knows about” her uncle, but doesn’t like it when she does, since it implicates him as a serial killer! Her illusions about him shattered, Charlie then develops an apathetic and negative attitude toward mankind (“I don’t believe in goodness anymore”) that is a vast, sweeping generalizing judgment because someone has let her down. She thinks in terms of others and their feelings above her own, not wanting her uncle to leave because it would hurt her mother, being proud of showing off how handsome he is to all her friends, and being concerned with keeping her parents happy. Charlie is exuberant and emotional, quickly sharing all of her feelings (how glad she is to see her uncle, how sorry she is that they live such mundane lives; how much she hates her mother’s “old hat,” eager to talk to the government men who come to see her, and she even goes out on a date with one of them and quickly falls in love). But when she finds out the truth about her uncle, Charlie also struggles to conceal her suspicions and her true feelings – she becomes distant and blunt, hints that her uncle should leave, and plays an emotional game with him, where she confronts him with her upset feelings and then taunts him by wearing the evidence of his crime in front of him, as a threat to get him out of the house. She asks him how he could do such a thing, because they had such faith in him. Prior to knowing the truth, Charlie saw them as two halves of the same whole, as twins linked by telepathy. She spoke in “we” terms about their need to know things about each other, and share everything. Charlie tries to understand and figure things out for herself, including examining the stairs after she suspects her uncle tried to kill her by causing her to fall down them. She shows some Se impulsiveness and a need to do things immediately; after being unable to read her uncle’s scraps of newspaper, she rushes off to the library before it closes—darting out into traffic and almost getting hit by a car. She dumps her best friend and their plans for the evening to go out on a date instead.

Enneagram: 2w1

Charlie’s sense of pride is that if others, such as her mother, are happy, then she is happy; she doesn’t need any more than that. She insists her uncle not give her a present and makes a big deal out of being the only person in the family who doesn’t need one, because everyone else’s happiness makes her happy by default. When we first meet her, she is thinking “philosophical thoughts” but mostly about how under-appreciated her mother is, and how they really ought to “do something” for her. Every time she thinks of how to deal with her uncle, Charlie sets herself up as her mother’s protector—and her uncle’s protector, too (she takes it upon herself, without being asked, to defend him, keep other people away from him, and keep his secrets when she assumes they are innocent). Later, she uses service as a way to avoid him, by offering to set the table and serve and finish dinner, so she won’t have to talk to him. Her 1 wing shows in how principled and direct she is, often correcting her siblings’ behaviors, talking about boundaries and how everyone should be respected. She gets mad at her father at dinner for jesting with his friend about how they could kill one another and get away with it. Charlie winds up being unable to fake her feelings once she knows the truth, and just tries to come up with ways to get her uncle to leave town so the police can arrest him, that way her mother won’t be upset.