Nick Carraway MBTI Personality Type
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What personality type is Nick Carraway? Nick Carraway is an ISFJ personality type in MBTI, 9w1 - so/sp - 926 in Enneagram, RCOAN in Big 5, EII in Socionics.
Si/Fe/Ti/Ne: Nick just gets swept up into the middle of everything, rather than being an active participant in his own life, although he did run away from his old “boring” life in order to find a more exciting one on Wall Street. He was writer, but gave that up as impractical to focus on doing the ‘normal’ and ‘expected’ thing instead, of working for a living. He’s also more focused and grounded than Gatsby, because he understand that time changes people, you need to move on from the past, and stop trying to recreate it, because you can’t go back. But writing is the only way he can make sense of what has happened when in rehabilitation and to vindicate Gatsby and clear his name. Nick has a more realistic idea about Daisy than Gatsby does, and understands that she and her husband are people who aren’t to be trusted; they use and abuse and then abandon people, which he finds reprehensible from a Fe standpoint. Nick also compromises his own morals to get people to like him, and goes along with their plans to please them. He protests on the part of Daisy when Tom has an affair—showing his thoughts automatically go to her, and whether this is appropriate or not. He tells Gatsby after inviting him and Daisy to tea to get back in the other room, leaving her alone is “being rude.” He also becomes quite angry when those who participated in Gatsby’s parties and benefited off his wealth ‘abandoned him’ and refused to show up for the funeral; and his anger is only exorcised after he writes his book, setting the record straight on his friend’s reputation. He likes to analyze things and insists that he’s being honest, but it’s never quite entirely sincere. He figures out without being told Daisy was behind the wheel of the car that killed Myrtle, even though he initially accused Gatsby (reversing his assumption in a matter of seconds). He has a metaphorical way of looking at things, in how he muses on the ‘green light’ at the end of Daisy’s dock, and how Gatsby sees it as being just out of reach
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