Things change when the Scarecrow begins to assist Dorothy. In becoming more extraverted when liberated from the pole, the Scarecrow exhibited a great deal of brain power. He emulates the extraverted Golden Yellow interpersonal preference—using information and reason to effect change in the world (helping Dorothy find her way home). At the end of the Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow is awarded a diploma. This is a document that acknowledges his wisdom. Could he have received this diploma if he had remained hanging on the pole? Probably not. As the fraudulent Wizard notes, it often only takes a diploma to make someone seem smart. And one only gets the diploma after accomplishing something (extraversion). [It is worth noting that the original books were not just intended for consumption by children. Like Gulliver’s Travels and many other “children’s books”, the Wizard of Oz books offered critical comments regarding leadership in America during this turbulent time—the Depression years of the 1930s. Its author, Frank Baum, probably wanted some extraverted Golden Yellow leadership to help thoughtfully guide the United States through this challenging period of time.
The second character, like the Scarecrow, was discovered near the Yellow Brick Road. He was the Tin Man, who had rusted in place during a rainstorm. With his ax in hand (to chop down trees), the Tin Man was unable to move. Like the Scarecrow, the Tin Man was set in an introverted stance, with the ability to observe but not take any action. It appears that both the Scarecrow and the Tin Man were “forced” into this introverted stance by the weather that rusted the Tin Man or some powerful figure who stuck the Scarecrow on his pole.
Dorothy and the Scarecrow were able to loosen Tin Man’s limbs with a squirt of oil. With the renewed capacity to not just move, but also talk, the Tin Man conveyed his desire to have a heart. This is one of the advantages of being an extrovert. One can more easily articulate how one is feeling to other people, rather than sitting back and “stewing” on one’s unarticulated feelings. The Tin Man notes that there is only a hollow sound when you bang on his tin chest. In an extraverted manner, he was actually able to bang on his own chest so that his condition might become manifest to Dorothy and the Scarecrow. This is another advantage of extraversion: one’s feelings can be enacted, thereby making these feelings more fully revealed as demonstrated emotions. As extraverts, we can scream and holler, hug someone, cry “out loud,” or even take some dramatic action that reveals despair or delight. At best, the introvert can mumble a few words expressing their displeasure or wiggle their toe a bit to express their delight. It is up to the discerning observer to recognize that these are true emotions, and might even be quite strong emotions, even though not dramatically articulated or displayed.
As in the case of the Scarecrow who is full of “smarts”, we discover that the Tin Man is full of “heart.” It is just because he is frozen in his rusted armor that he can’t “access” his heart. While he bangs on his chest when extracted from his frozen position, this banging leads him to inaccurately assume that he has no heart. Much as the Scarecrow has a poor self-image when hanging on the pole, the Tin Man has developed a poor (and inaccurate) self-image in his frozen, introverted stance. Actually, as we discover when the Tin Man begins to take action, he is a gentle, caring soul, exhibiting what would seem initially to be an introverted Azure Blue preference.
