F. Scott Fitzgerald MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is F. Scott Fitzgerald? F. Scott Fitzgerald is an ENFJ personality type in MBTI, 6w5 - sp/sx - 649 in Enneagram, SLUAI in Big 5, EIE in Socionics.
Oh boy. Okay, so I get ENFJ. Feeling type with Ni is pretty obvious. I could easily change my mind to ENFJ. If I do I’ll update this later. For one thing, I don’t actually see much Fe in his work. Gatsby is probably a Fe type, but the novel itself feels more Fi to me. It’s all about being consumed by your personal feelings. If anything he’s rather critical of Fe. Similar to other Fi doms, Fitzgerald wrote about his personal experiences, or at the very least he took heavily from those experiences. When Zelda tried to draw from those same experience, he became a mini dictator and tried to stop her (Te inferior). His Se is also very good. I don’t just mean that he liked going to parties. I mean the way he perfectly captures the present moment of time (when he was writing). He perfectly capture the times he lived, while also critiquing it. It’s easy to forget now that novels like The Great Gatsby were originally written as contemporary novels. He captured the moment perfectly like a photographer. He understood the present (again in his time) better than just about any other writer. Compare him to Hawthorne, whom I think is an ENFJ (or at least an INFJ). There is way more of both Fe and Ni in Hawthorne’s work than Fitzgerald.
Biography
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 — 1940) was an American author who is well known as the chronicler (and namer) of the Jazz Age. Throughout his career he wrote five novels and many short stories. Fitzgerald was born in Minnesota. He liked to drink and party and wrote his novels in order to support that lifestyle for his wife. The materialistic and hedonistic tendencies of his peers are reflected in his works, as is plenty of angst about the appropriateness of all that partying after World War I. While courting his future wife, Zelda, he completed his first novel This Side of Paradise. The works that followed were a river of short stories, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Love of the Last Tycoon, and his most famous work, The Great Gatsby. The critical and commercial popularity of Fitzgerald's work faded during his lifetime, and he finished his career as a script doctor in Hollywood. His critical reputation was revived following his death, with The Great Gatsby emerging as a strong contender for the Great American Novel.
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