ISFP 9w1 Characters

Guy plays things close to his chest, and makes moral judgments about all of them—when he meets Bruno on the train, he’s skeptical and a little unnerved by Bruno’s conversations about trading murders to go undetected, and tries to escape rather than calls him out on it. He is appalled to find out the truth (that Bruno murdered Guy’s wife, as they “agreed”) and cannot find it in himself to commit his own murder, so he goes to Guy’s home intending to confide the entire scheme in Guy’s father, only to be outwitted by Bruno. Guy comes clean to Anne when she figures out the truth, but struggles to anticipate and head off Bruno’s intentions—he is often outsmarted and outmaneuvered by his intuitive “foil,” leaving him falling back on the facts of the situation. He is rational enough to know that if he goes to the police, Bruno will implicate him in the crime, so the only way to save himself is to steal back the evidence with which Bruno intends to implicate him. Guy has made himself famous by being a tennis player, and he’s a good one who has a habit of taking a “measured” approach to his games and allowing them to play out. But as the movie shows, he can also be impulsive—he threatens his wife when he finds out she does not intend to divorce him and he has paid her off for nothing (he didn’t expect this), he hides from the police who come to inform him of his wife’s death (which makes him look suspicious), he goes to Bruno’s father’s house in the middle of the night to confide in him (after deciding on a whim to “go through with the murder,” which tips Bruno off about his intentions), and he escapes from the police and intends to intercept Bruno at the carnival to steal the evidence from him. While there, the two of them engage in a fistfight on a carousel, and after a child almost falls off it to his death, Guy saves saves him and get him to a place of safety. He shows flits of low intuition, as he tries to anticipate Bruno’s actions against him, but it only kicks in after he’s gotten himself into a mess—saying that Bruno will of course plant evidence against him, planning with Anne and her sister to steal away from the police, etc.

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Guy is polite and accommodating enough that he winds up talking to a man he doesn’t immediately like on a train, to where they share a meal together in Bruno’s compartment. Then, despite his companion talking “crazy talk” about murder, Guy suspects nothing nefarious of him until after his wife has been killed, and Bruno tells him all about it. From then on, Guy doesn’t want to get anyone else involved, for the trouble it could cause them. He also has a reputation as a tennis player of being calm, collected, and just allowing the matches to unfold; when he wants to end it quickly, he takes “unprecedented risks” and speeding up in a way that makes people notice that something is amiss. (The implication being that he is usually a man who takes his time and is unconcerned with haste.) He is moralistic and judgmental about Bruno and his behavior, threatening him several times and absolutely refusing to take part in his scheme, but also doesn’t want to wind up in jail, so he does not tell his story to the police.