Tom Ripley MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Tom Ripley? Tom Ripley is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 3w4 - sx/so - 361 in Enneagram, RCOAI in Big 5, EIE in Socionics.
Biography
Highsmith characterizes Ripley as a "suave, agreeable and utterly amoral" con artist and serial killer who always evades justice. Ripley is epicurean and sophisticated, living a life of leisure in rural France. He spends most of his time gardening, painting, or studying languages. He is polite, friendly, and cultured, and dislikes people who lack such qualities. In his review of Purple Noon, René Clément's 1960 adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, film critic Roger Ebert described Ripley as "a committed hedonist, devoted to great comfort, understated taste, and civilized interests. He has wonderful relationships with women, who never fully understand who or what he is. He has friendships – real ones – with many of his victims. His crimes are like moves in a chess game; he understands that as much as he may like and respect his opponents, he must end with a 'checkmate'."
