Famous Types · Fictional character
Anne Shirley
Proposed editorial type
ENFP
The Campaigner
Anne’s imaginative enthusiasm, emotional openness and instinct for finding possibility in unfamiliar circumstances strongly support an ENFP reading.
Why ENFP is a plausible reading
Anne enters Green Gables with an imagination that continually transforms ordinary places, language and relationships. She forms intense personal attachments, speaks with energetic spontaneity and repeatedly turns mistakes into new possibilities for growth.
Those patterns fit a clear ENFP interpretation: expansive imagination, emotional sincerity, verbal energy and a values-led desire to become fully herself. Later books add maturity and responsibility without removing that exploratory core.
Quotation from Anne Shirley
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
Anne Shirley · Anne of Green Gables, 1908