After having checked the basement, I moved up throughout the entire four stories of the office part of the building. It was eerie inside as I silently moved throughout the basement making sure there was no one else there. When I reached a basement door that also had a twig strategically placed and that had not been moved, I snuck by it and inside the vast structure. I passed by a few doors leading inside and my sticks and rocks that I placed previously were not disturbed. There was nothing to worry me so I quickly moved to the main factory building and moved along its facade, checking the tell-tale signs I had left in place. My face was already fully made up, I was wearing all my sexy underwear under my sweatpants and hoodie. I am a crossdresser that loves bondage but since I didn't have anyone to help me, I had to be satisfied with self-bondage. The reason I was so careful was that while I had been watching the buildings, I had started to get ready for my adventure. Carefully I looked around the corner towards the factory building and then scanned around to see if indeed I was alone and safe to move out into the open. A short drive later, I pulled into an open garage not far from the main factory building and got out of my car with a backpack over my shoulder. Still, this book is actually a rather good example of how the structural points exist in almost every type of story, even those that are not, in any sense, plot driven.I had been watching the abandoned factory site for over an hour by now and there was no sign of movement or anything that led me to believe that there was anyone there so I returned back through the trees to my parked car. The Mildred subplot at its center is only loosely connected to the early events of Philip’s life, as are his successes in the latter part of the book. Indeed, the plot in this classic is decidedly episodic and even rambling. Resolution: He asks the girl to marry him, and she agrees, and he is happy.Ĭomments: This is exactly the sort of book that inspires people to say structure is unnecessary to good stories. He finds himself in an affair with the daughter of a good friend.Ĭlimactic Moment: Philip finally realizes the thing he has wanted all along is simply a wife and family. Philip sees Mildred (once again a prostitute) for the last time. In an attempt to rectify his finances, he loses everything on the stock market and finds himself homeless, starving, and unable to finish his schooling.Ĭlimax: After working for months at a degrading job, Philip finally gets his financial feet back under him when his uncle dies, leaving him enough money to start again. In revenge, she systematically destroys his flat. Third Plot Point: After once again going out of his way to save Mildred (this time from prostitution), even though he no longer loves her, Philip refuses her advances. This time, Philip ponders suicide, but finally comes to a point where he believes he no longer loves her. But she casually betrays him by starting a passionate affair with Philip’s friend. Philip is overjoyed since he believes Mildred will now grow to love him. Second Pinch Point: After reentering Philip’s life and revealing that Miller (who never did marry her) abandoned her after discovering she was pregnant, Mildred allows Philip to spend his small budget in helping her. He finally moves on with his life, realizing he’s better off without her, even though he still loves her. Philip, in despair, believes it’s all up between them. Midpoint: Mildred tells Philip she’s going to marry a Mr. But I’m grouping it with the overall “pinch and turn” of this section.
Mildred’s introduction-although arguably the most important scene in the first half-doesn’t fit particularly well within the overall structure. Once there, he meets the waitress Mildred and becomes obsessively infatuated with her, despite his logical recognition of her many character flaws. He heroically decides to give it up and return to England to become a doctor. This both prompts and coincides with Philip’s realization that he has no true talent for art. At this point, he is an “adult” and must begin fending for himself in earnest.įirst Pinch Point: Philip’s artist “friend” Fanny commits suicide. This is both a turning point halfway through the First Act, and the Inciting Event in the sense that it introduces Philip’s main conflict: his personal and ideological struggles as an individual.įirst Plot Point: After his first romantic fling (which was not serious on his own part), Philip leaves behind the Normal World of England and goes to Paris to learn to be an artist. Inciting Event: After spending the first eighth of book as a child under the control of his cold uncle and simplistic aunt, Philip makes a bid for freedom and convinces them to let him leave his boarding school in England and instead go abroad to Germany.
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