ENFJ 2w3 Characters

Donna is a warm but assertive presence in the office, and excellent at anticipating and meeting other people’s needs. She enjoys having a powerful position as someone who knows what comes next and gets there before anyone else. She is also forthcoming about her expectations, her feelings, and easily insulted if someone demeans her or implies that her motivations are emotional. When Louis attacks her on the stand at a mock trial and demands to know if she shredded documents to protect Harvey because she is in love with him, Donna gets blindsided and adamantly denies it. She isn’t entirely honest about that, since she shows him preferential treatment in every way, while rebuffing others’ advances. When Rachel comes to her for advice, Donna easily empathizes with her, gives it, and cautions her about certain of her decisions, which might reflect poorly on her career. She is strategic in her thinking, admitting that she has chosen never to sleep with Harvey, because once you do that, you can never go back to the way it was; she sees how it could affect her entire career and their relationship dynamic, and chooses not to do it. Elsewhere, she anticipates things and helps Harvey see and head off problems. Though excellent at her job, she once in a while overlooks something important, a minor detail that catches her unawares later on (“I can’t believe this document has my stamp on it! I don’t remember ever seeing it!”). She often sees through people, figures out their secrets, or discerns what is going on behind the scenes (how someone is trying to manipulate her or Harvey). Donna appreciates fine things and perks, dresses to attract attention, and enjoys little luxuries, but can also sometimes be impulsive, such as keeping an incriminating document and then shredding it, a move which gets her fired and almost ruins her career.

Enneagram: 2w3

Donna is one of the best examples of a core 2 I’ve ever seen—she is selective in whom she helps (mainly Harvey), highly efficient at her job, and full of rejection energy—2s will cut people off if they have no interest in them, and she has no interest in helping Louis, in serving anyone else, or in allowing anyone into Harvey’s office who doesn’t belong there. In several instances, her “helping” winds up causing problems for Harvey, such as when she shreds a document that she unintentionally concealed for him (being “helpful”) in a court case, and winds up making it look as if he influenced her to shred it (a criminal act). She plays up how helpful she is and how her worth is tied to what she does in the office (“Donna is both a name and a title”—aka, a word for efficiency). Donna prides herself on knowing what others will need and getting there before them, but also demands respect, gratitude, and “caffeinated beverages in return.” She adamantly denies that she does things for Harvey because she is in love with him until it becomes impossible for her to deny it any longer. Donna will drop everything to spend time with Rachel, talk her through things, give her girl advice, or intervene for her. She is also assertive, self-confident, and self-promoting, seeing herself as and taking pride in being “the best” at her job. You do not want to cross her, because she moves into 8 aggression and reams people for invalidating or ignoring her authority.