INTJ 3w4 Characters
Dominant Introverted Intuition – strong and specific personal plans, insights, or predictions that lead them to set their ideas in motion far in advance: When Andy attempts to warm Miranda about having her job stolen out from under her, Miranda says she has known about this ‘for months’ and been planning against it; that’s why so many years ago, over her long career, she built up a list of editors, fashion designers, photographers, and models who are ‘loyal to me, who would do anything for me, and who would go with me, when I leave,’ in order to use it as leverage against her “boss” and stay in the business. She sees potential in Andy because she isn’t like the other girls who let her down; over time, Miranda continues to give her chances, is impressed with her ambition and resolve, and then even sees a reflection of herself in Andy’s determination to do her best. She centers her life around her job; as Andy puts it, “Runway is her life!” Miranda also gets her heart set on how things ‘ought’ to be and accepts no substitutes; in one scene, despite the hurricane raging outside, she calls up Andy and insists that she get her a flight home at once, because she needs to be home for her daughters’ recital the next day. The inability to accept the reality of her situation (“it’s just a little rain!”) is the fault of her Ni and low Se, which rejects what’s actually happening for what she wants.
Auxiliary Extroverted Thinking – relying on facts, drawing logical conclusions, being efficient and straightforward: Miranda is straightforward and blunt in how she puts people in her place, but she is also formidable in how she gets things done, makes decisions for the betterment of her publication, and hands off tasks to subordinates so she can focus on what truly matters—her work as an editor. She finds inefficiency irritating, sloppiness unforgivable, and there’s no room for excuses; she hires people to do a job, and expects it done right and well. She criticizes those who cannot follow orders or be competent, but also sets them impossible tasks to find out how far they will go to stay in her good graces. When Andy manages to impress her with the Harry Potter situation, Miranda does not thank her, but slowly begins shifting her to a more desirable position. Her take-down of Andy and her “lumpy blue sweater” shows how intimately she knows the fashion industry and how it works. She also argues that no one can do her job as well as she does, even if it costs her boss hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue (showing that her Ni vision is often ahead of her rationality).
Tertiary Introverted Feeling – unwilling to go against their personal values and self-contained in their feelings: Despite her off-putting behavior, Miranda has a knack for finding what is valuable and promoting it, for spotting talent and coaxing it out, and for delegation. She has a formidable work ethic, sometimes to her own determent. Miranda cares mostly about her kids and her husband, and losing the latter devastates her. When it surfaces that ‘another’ divorce is going to hit the tabloids, she worries about how her kids will feel reading about it. The only way to earn her respect is to prove you are willing to do what it takes—and then, she will see herself in you and become fond of you.
Inferior Extroverted Sensing – impulsive and hedonistic under stress, often miscalculates when they act rashly: Miranda has a great deal of aesthetic snobbery happening in her love of fashion, her need for it to be always moving forward (“florals for spring? How original”), and her ability to tell the difference between two different shades of the same color, but she does very little, exerts almost no energy outside of her job, and is oblivious to the realities of her sensory existence or the limitations it provides.
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Enneagram: 3w4
Enneagram 3—a driven, ambitious person who wants to succeed to the best of their ability: Miranda shows her true colors when she hears her husband is divorcing her; she breaks down briefly in front of Andy, then immediately puts her mind back on her job and refuses to talk about it. She merely muses on how she should be cut a newspaper check for all the papers she sells, and states that she worries about her kids seeing their mother’s face all over the tabloids and in the news again. Then, she shuts off her emotions and goes back to work. Miranda states from the first that “nobody else” can do her job, for the money she makes and saves the publication, and she proactively saves her job by undercutting Nigel and finding her competition a new job somewhere else with a startup company. She believes in and demands competence from her employees and is hard on them when they fail to live up to her expectations. She will accept no substitutes, and she hates hideous things (why can’t we find attractive paratroopers? Has Gwyneth [Paltrow] lost that baby fat yet?). Miranda will order a reshoot of something to the tune of $300,000 just because she doesn’t “like it” and it’s not up to her high standards. She is an egotistical ‘tyrant’ to her employees in her demand for perfection, but is also driven, ambitious, and determined to succeed. She has fought her way to the top and intends to stay there, and sees her perks (such as no one sharing an elevator with her) as proof of her power in the building and in the industry (if she does not like a designer’s stuff, he will start over from scratch).
4 wing brings in a sense that others lack their refined taste, and a longing for what they cannot achieve: Miranda is direct, self-centered, and elitist in her tastes, critical of people she sees as shallow, pandering, or ‘in poor taste.’ She tells Andy she decided to hire ‘the smart, fat girl’ this time, and now Andy has ‘disappointed me more than all the rest.’ Miranda says whatever she thinks and feels, regardless of whom else it offends, shocks, or hurts. She hates her job being demeaned; when Andy snorts at the idea of two belts being ‘so different’ (they are ‘almost identical’), Miranda has an angry reaction to Andy calling it ‘this stuff’ because it implies it’s unimportant, and puts her in her place. She doesn’t accept Andy until Andy puts in an effort to ‘look good.’ In that way, she is doing image management—being bitchy and better than other people, unapologetic about her negativity, and only respectful once you earn it.
