ISFJ 2w1 Characters Mr. Brownlow is an attorney who is meticulous and who builds an understanding of people based on his interactions with them. He knows Monks to be unstable and dangerous, but also that he can be controlled through…
ISFP 2w1 Characters Dominant Introverted Feeling – a self-knowledge and a desire to live in accordance with one’s personal values: Nicholas stands out in strong contrast to his peers, because he often refuses to hold back his tongue when it…
ISFJ 9w1 Characters Kate doesn’t have much screen time, but seems to place a great deal of emphasis on social propriety and appropriate behavior, and carries certain expectations formed from Si impressions about the role of families. She has never…
ISFJ 9w1 Characters Smike seems to live his life entirely for others, throughout much of the story. He has never known anything but unkindness before Nicholas comes to the school and shows him tenderness, but that allows him to believe…
ISFJ 6w5 Characters Madeline has a hard time imagining a different life with Nicholas, because the only one she has ever known has been full of cruelty and hardship; she has never found anyone trustworthy in which to place her…
ISFP 1w2 Characters Oliver fiercely refuses to let anyone or anything corrupt him, change his mind, or to force him to do anything he doesn’t want to do or feel is right. He defies Fagan several times in the process,…
ESFJ 2w1 Characters Nancy’s story arc is one of her struggling against avoidance and excesses (her alcoholism) and her high moral character, which cares deeply for other people and their needs. It’s partly what keeps her with Bill Sikes, an…
INFP 6w7 Characters Harriet filters everything intensely through her own emotions, which is why she is always on the verge of having an outburst–her English father is forever telling her to count to ten (not that it does much good,…
ESTP 8w7 Characters When we first meet Rigaud, he’s in jail for murder… and he wastes no time wherever he goes in blackmailing people, killing them, or leaping on whatever opportunity comes his way. Miss Wade hires him to follow…
ISFJ 2w1 Characters Rose is a sensible girl but also a romantic, who doesn’t like to sit around and do nothing; she informs Oliver when he doesn’t care to read a book (because he saw one he didn’t like once)…