Ally Carter experiences her inner life as a process of growth and maturation, nurtured by her involvement with others and the positive and negative encounters this generates.

Ally Carter leads a life which is open to the outside world. Her personal consciousness is forged by the heat of outer events. She is inclined to adopt the most objective viewpoint possible to be pragmatic and perhaps even materialistic.

Ally Carter became involved in social affairs while maintaining her individual identity. She identifies herself with social activities and tries to know herself through these activities.

Ally Carter is a realist. She approaches life pragmatically, and even her feelings are based on rational, tangible evidence. She bases her judgements on past experience and is prone to skepticism. A hard worker, she takes pride in her own endeavors and has a personal concept of her productivity. Her possessions help her assert herself as an individual and act as an antidote to any feelings of insecurity. As a result, material accomplishments may preoccupy her more than either love as a passion or intellectual or philosophical considerations. Nevertheless, she becomes attached to anything which offers her certainty.

Ally Carter works hard to understand the feelings of others, but finds it difficult to connect with those around her. She is not insensitive, but is baffled by her own emotions. She sees the emotional world as a foreign territory, perhaps fraught with hidden dangers. Becoming more familiar with it would present more risks than benefits. As a result, she might appear to be cold or distant. She might struggle to establish a relationship with someone, as she seeks out special individuals to bond with. If she were able to accept and understand her own emotions, she would have an easier time grappling with the emotions of others. Ally has a strong desire for emotional independence, and might have trouble seeing the emotional needs of others. She might even be the first to deny that such needs are real. As a result, her dependency on others is unconscious. Because it is seen as such a threat, it is repressed. Actually, although she offers conscious resistance to anyone who tries to lure her out of her emotional bubble, she is always making timid, half-conscious forays into the world of feelings, because her loneliness and fear are so unbearable.