ISFJ 6w5 Characters
Dominant Introverted Sensing—a strong emphasis on memories holding personal significance, meticulous, and detailed: Julie has a deep and abiding love for the ranch she grew up on, and happily reminisces about the grand parties her grandfather threw up at the big house, before he died and it fell into disrepair. She dreams of fixing it up one day, but can’t afford it on a schoolteacher’s salary, so instead, she spends time on the property and is painting the little house down the hill. She wishes she could get free from the Big Muddy because of the social pressures on both sides from two feuding families, but also knows she can’t trust anyone else, and can’t sell it to either family, who would only prevent the other from the water. It’s only when James McKay convinces her that selling it to him would still be like owning it that she agrees he can have it and signs the lease. She is a proper young woman of the times, but also recognizes she can’t always save herself.
Auxiliary Extroverted Feeling—ease of emotional expression and shaping their actions around how their decisions affect others: She says in every way, she has tried to hold true to the promises her grandfather made his neighbors, even when it inconveniences her, proving that her lifestyle comes from a desire to live in a way that her grandfather would wish for from her. Julie will sacrifice herself and her own happiness to keep James alive when he comes for her (Buck threatens to kill him, unless Julie makes him go away). She calls out Pat on being selfish and childish, telling her off for insisting a man win her favor with acts of bravado (“How many times does a man have to win you!?”). When James challenges her to a story-telling contest during casual conversation and tries to gross her out, she tells him a grisly tale about burying people alive in red ant hills and makes him faint (or so she thinks). She easily talks about her feelings about the feud, the Big Muddy, and her desires for the future when asked.
Tertiary Introverted Thinking—desires to understand how systems and people work so they can better communicate or figure out how a hack that works: Unlike Pat, Julie has a good sense of human nature and how people function internally. She can distance herself enough to criticize her best friend without being disloyal to her by drawing attention to her flaws. She looks for evidence to prove herself right by tricking a hired hand into telling the truth about McKay riding Old Thunder. Julie sees no problem in signing a deed because she knows it’s worthless now that she no longer owns the Big Muddy. She understands James a lot better than his own fiancé, in a brief time (she recognizes he doesn’t need to prove himself to Pat or any of the boys, and that he only needs to prove things to himself).
Inferior Extroverted Intuition—curious about the future and in possibilities, but skeptical of “unrealistic” ideas and allows others to lead the way there: Julie does not talk much about her ideas for the future, but we get the sense that she will stick to what is familiar and live in town (before the audience realizes she’ll wind up back on the Big Muddy with James McKay!).
Enneagram: 6w5
Enneagram 6—question everything in a desire to understand it, and attach to and test those in authority: Julie exemplifies well a 6’s tendency to be objective and able to see the flaws in the people they love. She is still Pat’s friend, but also knows her friend to be shallow and childish, and isn’t afraid to draw her attention to that, when she finds out Pat threw over McKay for being a “coward” (not fighting someone who called him a liar). She would rather not deal with the feud, but also realizes she has a moral obligation to run the Big Muddy and try to broker peace by allowing both parties access to her water. Loyalty to her grandfather influences many of her business decisions and a desire to maintain his high moral standard. She wants to do it the same ways he did, and to continue on her legacy.
5 wing brings in an esoteric quality of withdrawing from others to create safety: She hasn’t gotten married despite I’m sure having plenty of local offers. Julie likes to do things on her own and is out fixing up the little house and painting by herself when McKay finds her and offers to buy the property. She is cautious but also not afraid to speak her mind and makes it plain she has no interest in Buck—while facing his father in their own house. She also admires things about other people that are not “normal” in the society in which she lives (she admires Jim for not being like the other cowboys—a shallow show-off and a braggart).
