Jason Dean Character Analysis: INTJ

Dominant Introverted Intuition [Ni]: JD has a singular vision, which he spends the majority of
his time trying to make a reality. He believes that the only place for people who come from
different cliques can truly get along is in Heaven, and strongly feels that killing the entire school
is the only way to achieve this. To him, this way of seeing society is an indisputable, universal
truth, and it is his primary motivation. JD has a rich understanding of symbolism and metaphor.
“Moby Dick is dunked. The white whale drank some bad plankton and splashed through a coffee
table, and now it’s your turn to take the helm.” When writing Heather Chandler’s suicide note,
Veronica argues that Heather would never use a word like “myriad,” especially because she
missed that one on a vocabulary exam, but JD argues that gives them more of a reason to use the
word, referring to it as a “badge for her failures at school.” He could have called them anything,
but instead chooses to refer to the “tranquilizer” bullets as “ich luge” bullets, which translates to
“I’m lying” in German. Everything he does has meaning and significance. He gives Heather
Duke the red scrunchie because it’s symbolic. Heather Chandler wore it, so it is a symbol of
strength and power. He might as well be handing her a crown. When JD explains his master plan
to what he thinks is Veronica’s corpse, he tells her exactly how he believes the world will receive
the mass suicide at Westerburg High. It will “infect a generation!” It’ll be a “Woodstock for the
’80s!” JD knows exactly what he needs to do to carry out his schemes. When it looks as though
Heather Chandler won’t drink the “hangover cure,” JD remarks that he knew it would be “too
intense for her,” which gets her to take the cup. He even finds “homosexual artifacts” to plant at
the scene in order to support and strengthen the narrative he’s created. When Heather Duke gives
him her copy of Moby Dick, he immediately begins underlining meaningful passages in order to
stage her suicide. He blackmails her because he knows her weakness. She needs to be popular,
and so, he digs up photos that could ruin her reputation and uses them as leverage to get her to
take Heather Chandler’s place. JD has strong hunches about things and people. He fully believes
something unless it’s proven to him that he is incorrect, in which case he will revise his
approach. He is certain that Veronica will be back after she breaks up with him, but when she
makes it clear that it’s over, he decides that he needs to kill her. Immediately after their
encounter in the hallway, JD goes straight to Veronica’s parents to warn them that she might try
to commit suicide, laying in the groundwork for his plan to murder her.

Auxiliary Extroverted Thinking [Te]: When it comes to plans, JD has it covered. He’s
methodical and focused on getting the job done and implementing his vision. JD is extremely
intelligent and knows what he must do in order to accomplish his goals. He’s the one who comes
up with the idea to make Heather’s death look like a suicide. He fully intends to kill Kurt and
Ram, but he knows that Veronica would never agree to that, so he invents an entire fictional plan
to get her to go through with it. When Veronica asks why she would need to write a suicide note
for them if they’re not actually killing them, he explains an entire fake plan to her. We’ll shoot
them with the “ich luge” bullets, they’ll look like they’e dead, when really they’re just
unconscious. They’ll stage it to look as though they shot each other, and when they come to, the
entire school will know what they did, and they’ll be a joke. The note, as JD points out, is the
punchline. Although he cares for Veronica, he sees her as a part of his plans and uses her to his
advantage, and he has no qualms about killing her once he realizes he can no longer control her.
When he loses Veronica, he turns to Heather Duke, using her to do his bidding instead. Through
her, he gets his fellow classmates to unwittingly agree to mass suicide by creating a petition,
which Heather goes around the school getting everyone to sign.

Tertiary Introverted Feeling [Fi]: It’s not right that the popular kids pick on everyone else, and
they need to be taught a lesson and pay for their crimes. However, JD takes his punishments to
the extreme. He wants justice for those who have been wronged, but he’s extremely unhealthy,
and his sentences don’t necessarily fit the crimes. His values and sense of right and wrong are
entirely internally based, and he genuinely believes what he is doing is justified. In his mind,
Heather was a bitch and she deserved to die. Kurt and Ram had nothing going for them and the
world wouldn’t suffer without them. Different social types will only be able to live in harmony
in the afterlife! JD genuinely believes that offing her classmates is what Veronica wants deep
down, and accuses her of not being able to face those ugly feelings she has. He insists that she
wanted Kurt and Ram dead. It is likely that he has repressed his feelings from his mother’s
suicide, as well as what he went through moving from state to state and school to school, and
saw his actions as the only way to deal with the pain he felt. When he is struggling with Veronica
in the boiler room as he attempts to blow up the school, he indicates that part of the reason he has
done everything he’s done is because he doesn’t feel loved. While he loves Veronica in his own
way, he believes that she must die once he accepts that she won’t come back to him (Ni-Fi). He
had completely unreasonable expectations of Veronica, but when she could no longer be coerced
and opposed his belief system, he couldn’t stand it. When he insists that their way is the way, she
responds that it’s not her way. Because he was so certain of his convictions, he genuinely doesn’t
understand why Veronica doesn’t acknowledge that and return to him. ” I don’t get it! I mean,
you were wrong! I was right. Strength, damn it! Come on, come back!”

Inferior Extroverted Sensing [Se]: Everything JD does is in service of his ultimate vision. He
doesn’t spend any time living in the moment because he’s always thinking about what he’s going
to do next. For JD, everything needs to have a deeper significance and he assigns meaning to
everything. Many of his actions stem from a desire to create a sort of symbolic resonance and
rarely takes things for what they appear to be on the surface. At times, JD can become impulsive,
violent, and physical. He shoots Kurt and Ram with blanks in the school cafeteria because “The
extremely always seems to make an impression.” JD uses what he notices in his external
environment to help him form his plans. When he and Veronica are trying to decide what to do
after killing Heather, he spots a magazine in her bedroom that says “The Fall of the American
Teen” on it, with a copy of the Cliffs Notes for The Bell Jar on top of it. After noticing these
things, he decides to stage the murder to look like a suicide. He decides to set a bomb off in the
school after watching a video of a building his dad blew up. JD pays attention to his
surroundings and uses his observations in his schemes – he reminds Veronica that Kurt is left-
handed, so she knows where to place the gun. When JD knocks Veronica out in the boiler room
as tries to thwart his plans, he doesn’t restrain her. He leaves her where she is and continues to
go about his business, which ultimately leads to his downfall.

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Quotes:
JD: The extreme always seems to make an impression.

JD: Well, everybody’s life has got static. Is your life perfect?

JD: Heather Chandler is one bitch that deserves to die.

Veronica Sawyer: Killing her won’t solve anything. I say we just grow up, be adults, and die.
But before that, I’d like to see Heather Chandler puke her guts out.

JD: What are we gonna tell the cops? Fuck it if she can’t take a joke, Sarge?
Veronica Sawyer: Oh, the cops. I can’t believe this is my life. Oh my god. I’m gonna have to
send my SAT scores to San Quentin instead of Stanford.
JD: All right, just a little freaked here. At least you got what you wanted, you know?
Veronica Sawyer: Got what I wanted? It is one thing to want somebody out of your life. It is
another thing to serve them a wakeup cup full of liquid drainer.
[JD sees a magazine with “The Fall of the American Teen” on the cover and a copy of the Cliff’s
Notes for The Bell Jar.]
JD: All right, we did a murder. Now that’s a crime. But if this were like a suicide thing, you
know?
Veronica Sawyer: Like a suicide thing?
JD: Yeah. I mean, you can do Heather’s handwriting as well as your own, right? Right?
Veronica Sawyer: You might think what I’ve done is shocking.
JD: Um, to me, though, suicide is the natural answer to the myriad of problems life has given me.
Veronica Sawyer: That’s good, but Heather would never use the word myriad.
JD: This is the last thing she’ll ever write, she’s gonna wanna cash in on as many 50-cent words
as possible.
Veronica Sawyer: Yeah, but she missed myriad on the vocab test two weeks ago.
JD: That only proves my point more. The word is a badge for her failures at school.
Veronica Sawyer: Oh. Ok, you’re probably right. People think just because you’re beautiful ad
popular life is easy and fun. No one understood, I had feelings too.
JD: I die knowing no one knew the real me.
Veronica Sawyer: That’s good. Have you done this before?

JD: What is this shit?

Veronica Sawyer: Doing a favor for Heather. Double date. I tried to tell you at the funeral, but
you rode off.
JD: Another fucking Heather. I’m sorry, I’m just feeling a little superior tonight. Seven schools
in seven states and the only thing different is my locker combination. Our love is God. Let’s go
get a slushie.

Veronica Sawyer: I don’t get the point of me writing a suicide note when we’re just going to be
shooting them with blanks.
JD: Well we’re not going to be using blanks this time.
Veronica Sawyer: You can’t be serious.
JD: I am.
Veronica Sawyer: Listen, my Bonnie and Clyde days are over.
JD: Wait a second, wait a second. Do you take German?
Veronica Sawyer: French.
JD: All right. These are ich luge bullets. My grandfather snared a shitload of them back in
WWII. They’re like tranquilizers. Only they break the surface of the skin enough to cause a little
blood, but no real damage.
Veronica Sawyer: So it looks like the person’s been shot and killed and really they’re just lying
there unconscious and bleeding?
JD: Right. See, we shoot Kurt and Ram, make it look like they shot each other, and by the time
they regain consciousness they’ll be the laughingstock of the whole school. The note’s the
punchline. How’d that turn out?
JD: Let’s take a look at some of the homosexual artifacts I dug up to plant at the scene. All right,
I’ve got an issue of Stud Puppy.
Veronica Sawyer: That’s great.
JD: A candy dish. Joan Crawford postcard. Let’s see, some mascara. All right, now here’s the
one perfecto thing I picked up – mineral water.
Veronica Sawyer: Oh, come on. A lot of people drink mineral water. It’s come a long way.
JD: Yeah, but this is Ohio. I mean, if you don’t have a brewski in your hand, you might as well
be wearing a dress.
Veronica Sawyer: Oh, you’re so smart.

Veronica Sawyer: Kurt doesn’t look too good.

JD: Just remember he’s left-handed.

JD: Look, you believed it because you wanted to believe it. Your true feelings were too gross
and icky for you to face.

JD: Football season is over, Veronica. Kurt and Ram had nothing to offer this school but date
rapes and AIDS jokes.

Veronica Sawyer: That thing this afternoon. I’m so angry! It was chaos, fucking chaos.
JD: What are you talking about, huh? I mean, today was great! Chaos is great! Chaos is what
killed the dinosaurs, darling. Face it, our way is the way! We scare people into not being
assholes!
Veronica Sawyer: Our way is not our way!
JD: Oh yeah, tell that to the judge, all right? Tell it to Kurt Kelly! ‘Oh, God, Veronica!’
Veronica Sawyer: I’m telling it to you! God, you can be so immature!

Heather Duke: Me and Martha Dumptruck? Where did you get this?
JD: I just had the nicest little chat with Miss Dumptruck. Got along famously. It’s kinda scary
how everyone’s got a little story to tell. Do you wanna see the canoeing shots?
Heather Duke: What is this, blackmail?… I’ll give you a week’s lunch money.
JD: I don’t want your money. I want your strength. I mean, Westerburg does not need mushy
togetherness, it needs a strong leader. Heather Chandler was that leader, but-
Heather Duke: But she couldn’t handle it.
JD: I think you can. Moby Dick is dunked. The white whale drank some bad plankton and
splashed through a coffee table, and now it’s your turn to take the helm.
Heather Duke: What about the photographs?
JD: Oh, don’t worry. I’ll ask you to do me a favor, and it’ll be one you’ll enjoy. Then you’ll get
the negatives and everything back then. But in the meantime, strength. Here’s a little gift. [He
hands her the red scrunchie]

Veronica Sawyer: I was thinking more along the lines of slitting Heather Duke’s wrists open,
making it look like a suicide.
JD: Heh, now you’re talking. I could be up for that. I’ve already started underlining meaningful
passages in her copy of Moby Dick, if you know what I mean.
Veronica Sawyer: I knew you’d be back, Veronica. I knew it. I was positive, I was sure.
Veronica Sawyer: It’s over, JD. Over. Grow up!
JD: I don’t get it! I mean, you were wrong! I was right. Strength, damn it! Come on, come back!

Mrs. Sawyer: Your friend Jason Dean stopped by. He seemed very concerned about you. He said
that he thought you might try to kill yourself.
Mr. Sawyer: You have been depressed lately. Oh, he left this for you.
[He hands Veronica an envelope. She takes out a piece of paper that says ‘Recognize the
handwriting?’ in her own handwriting.]
Veronica Sawyer: Oh my God.
Mrs. Sawyer: He said that we should keep you away from sharp objects, closed garage doors,
chemical substances, prescription drugs.

JD: I can’t believe you did it! I was teasing. I loved you! Sure, I was coming up here to kill ya.
First I was going to try and get you back with my amazing petition. It’s a shame you can’t see
what our fellow students really signed. All right, listen. ‘We students of Westerburg High will
die. Today. Our burning bodies will be the ultimate protest to a society that degrades is. Fuck
you all.’ It’s not very subtle, but neither’s blowing up a whole school, now is it? Talk about your
suicide pacts, eh? When our school blows up tomorrow, it’s going to be the kind of thing to
infect a generation. A Woodstock for the 80s! Damn it, Veronica. We coulda toasted
marshmallows together.

JD: You think just because you started this thing, you can end it?
Veronica Sawyer: I’ll kill you. I’ll fucking kill you, I swear to God. How do I turn off the
goddamn bomb, asshole?
[JD flips Veronica the middle finger; she shoots it off]
Veronica Sawyer: It’s all over, JD. Help me stop it.
JD: You want to clean the slate as much as I do. All right, so maybe I am killing everyone in the
school, because nobody loves me! Let’s face it, all right! The only place different social types
can genuinely get along with each other is in heaven.
Veronica Sawyer: Which button do I press to turn it off?
JD: Try the red one, all right? [Veronica looks at the bomb; all of the buttons are red] Seriously,
people are going to look at the ashes of Westerburg and say there is a school that self-destructed,
not because society didn’t care, but because the school was society! That’s pretty deep, huh?
Veronica Sawyer: Which red button?
JD: Press the middle one to turn it off it that’s what you really want.
Veronica Sawyer: You know what I want, babe?
JD: What? [He lunges towards her and she shoots him.]
Veronica Sawyer: Cool guys like you out of my life.

JD: Color me impressed. You, uh. You really fucked me up bad, Veronica. You, um, you got
power. Power I didn’t think you had. The slate is clean. Pretend I did blow up the school. All the
schools. Now that you’re dead, what are you gonna do with your life?