I decided this issue deserves it's own thread. Please address all issues related to GWTW and the characters therein, book and movie.
Was Melaine INFP or ISFP?
Agree. I feel Melanie as more INFP than anything else. She loves him idealistically like INFP would. It's also the type of dreams that they dream together.
Edit: I also think an INFP is the only type truly hopelessly idealistic enough to remain so deeply in-love with such a dimwitt!
Melanie is a woman of the 1860s and she is also rather frail, pregnant but not built for it. We see her in the book as a young married woman when her life is consumed by marriage and family but she does speak out. She also acts out her ideals by volunteering in the hospital, she's not truly a passive wall flower. Since she dies early, we don't get to see her in the stage of life where Te would have developed stronger.
These points here aren't what make her N, it's her pie-eyed idealism over Ashley that convinces me. An ISFP would get fed up! Their Se would not allow them to keep up the illusion that Ashely wasn't rubber necking over Scarlett like Ne would!
Melanie Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"...Melanie harshly criticises their presence in the city, while more forces are needed at the front. Scarlett soon finds that, as passively as Melanie usually acts, she can become surprisingly passionate and even aggressive in support of her ideals..."
Was Melaine INFP or ISFP?
You mean Scarlett? Yes, that certainly applies.
But Melanie wasn't just a bookworm; she believed in her husband who, as you say, was an immature idiot with his head in the clouds; she wasn't just loyal to him or admire him because he was her husband, she met him in the realm of the mind and dreamed the same dreams.
Agree. I feel Melanie as more INFP than anything else. She loves him idealistically like INFP would. It's also the type of dreams that they dream together.
Edit: I also think an INFP is the only type truly hopelessly idealistic enough to remain so deeply in-love with such a dimwitt!
ISFPs often do that in my experience--sharing dreams. They're very complex people but it's internal and because it's tied up in Fe, it's hard for them to express. I just think that if she were INFP, after the war you'd see her emerging as a different person...
Melanie is a woman of the 1860s and she is also rather frail, pregnant but not built for it. We see her in the book as a young married woman when her life is consumed by marriage and family but she does speak out. She also acts out her ideals by volunteering in the hospital, she's not truly a passive wall flower. Since she dies early, we don't get to see her in the stage of life where Te would have developed stronger.
These points here aren't what make her N, it's her pie-eyed idealism over Ashley that convinces me. An ISFP would get fed up! Their Se would not allow them to keep up the illusion that Ashely wasn't rubber necking over Scarlett like Ne would!
Melanie Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"...Melanie harshly criticises their presence in the city, while more forces are needed at the front. Scarlett soon finds that, as passively as Melanie usually acts, she can become surprisingly passionate and even aggressive in support of her ideals..."