William Dorrit MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is William Dorrit? William Dorrit is an INFP personality type in MBTI, 3w4 - - in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.
I can see the argument for ISFP, but it seems to me like his insistence upon re-framing his circumstances into something admirable (even as a 3) is more a Ne-ish refusal to deal with reality. He's also a poor judge of character in a way that devalues Se/Ni's adherence to strict realities when reaching assumptions. (He fears, weirdly, that Arthur is going to turn on them and demand money from him, after Arthur has done nothing but be kind to them throughout their acquaintance. This isn't living in reality, in favor of a fantasy, as Amy points out to him, as a sensing type.)
Biography
About thirty years before the story begins, he enters the debtors' prison called the Marshalsea with his wife and two children. Over time he becomes the "Father of the Marshalsea", based on his social ways, maintaining the expectations of the class in which he was raised. He makes no efforts to resolve the situation that put him in the prison.
