Cinderella and Prince Charming in a Royal Carriage by Brian Leekley
In this what happened next drama, Cinderella is an enneagram 5 and Prince Charming is an enneagram 2.
I made up this little drama as an exercise in using the enneagram of personality to help create characters. See also my online essay “Using the Enneagram to Help Create Fictional Characters.” If you would like, for your own amusement, experiment with what happens when you give the characters different personalities, such as if Prince Charming were a take charge type 8 and Cinderella were an ambivalent towards authority type 6.
Characters: Cinderella Jones is an enneagram type 5. She needs alone time for reading and thinking. Prince Stanley Charming is an enneagram type 2. He seeks self-worth in being helpful to others.
Scene: Cinderella is riding from her home to the castle with Prince Charming inside of a horse-drawn carriage. The horses and driver are out of view.
Prince: Are you comfortable, Cindy?
Cinderella: Mind if I slip out of these glass slippers, Stanley?
Prince: No, go ahead, beautiful.
Cinderella takes off the slippers and sets them on the carriage seat beside her. Prince Charming is in the seat…
