What is the personality type of Castorp? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Castorp from Kaze Tachinu and what is the personality traits.
Castorp personality type is ENFJ, which means he is an Extroverted Extrovert, uses Ni (iNtuition), Fe (Perceiving) and Te (Thinking).
Herr Castorp is the only male character in the book.
He is an odd duck with a strange sense of humor. He doesn’t like being alone and makes up stories to entertain himself. He also has an obsessive attraction to the Propellerfahrer.
“He tried to imagine the Propellerfahrer as a sex object, but it was not a pleasant picture. It was more complicated than that. It was not only that he liked the Propellerfahrer, but that he wanted to like him.”
He is also afraid of heights and goes to the “Top” frequently, he is scared of the sea and in one chapter he tells us how he is afraid of falling off a ship into the sea.
“He had never been at all brave about heights, and did not like to stand on the highest deck.”
He definitely has a crush on the Propellerfahrer, but does so at his own expense.