Amy March MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Amy March? Amy March is an ENTJ personality type in MBTI, 3w4 - so/sx - 387 in Enneagram, SCOEN in Big 5, SEE in Socionics.
Is this because Amy is a character that I, an ENTJ, relate to very strongly? Perhaps. But I also see a lot of ENTJ traits in her anyway. I think Amy cared a lot about what other people thought of her as a child, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that ENTJs can’t experience that, because self-consciousness and desire to be understood are pretty universal human traits. Furthermore, I feel like her self-consciousness sits at odds with her complete lack of self-awareness or emotional sensitivity, which could perhaps betray low Fi. She spends so much time in Part 1 focused on herself and her social and artistic ambitions, and genuinely seems to have trouble understanding or engaging with moral and emotional issues. Literally her big character moment in Part 1 involves her learning to connect with concepts of morality and empathy that she hasn’t engaged with up until this point. And in Part 2, I see a lot of forethought and pragmatism on Amy’s part that suggests ENTJ. She’s aware from very early on that she may not be artistically talented enough to achieve renown, and she sets out to Europe with a plan to see if her doubts are correct, and a contingency plan to become a society belle if art doesn’t work out. Once in Europe, she does exactly this. She also demonstrates this forethought and externally-focused judgement when giving Jo writing advice, as she’s able to see how Jo’s more immediately unpalatable option of changing her masterpiece to suit critical demands will work as a stepping-stone to future acclaim and more artistic freedom. Furthermore, she is willing to put more trust in the critics’ opinions of Jo’s writing, as they are externally-validated experts in the field. Amy is definitely interested in beauty and pleasure, yes, but I find that there are a lot of situations where her frankness conquers her love of all things artificial and beautiful. She almost immediately sees through Laurie’s pleasantries to her in Europe and dismisses them fairly bluntly. In general, she disdains Laurie for his lack of substance and inability to get to the point and face his problems, as this contrasts so clearly with her detached, big-picture way of dealing with her own disappointments. Overall, I think the reason why a lot of people refuse to see Amy as an ENTJ is because a lot of people fundamentally misunderstand what ENTJs are. There’s this expectation that ENTJs must always be cartoonishly blunt, cartoonishly uninterested in things that aren’t entirely practical, cartoonishly stereotypically-masculine. And I feel like this often comes especially into the typing of ENTJ girls and women, who may sometimes present as more emotionally and aesthetically inclined than is stereotypical, simply because that’s what’s expected of girls.
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