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86 BUILDING UP THE PLOT Mary soon finds employment and prospers, but Ben is essentially of the country and cannot adapt himself to city ways. He is forced to return home. There he waits in the hope that Mary will return to him. Eventually she does. 16. This is the same story done into different words to qualify it as a plot. It is not ample enough. There is the suggestion of struggle and some slight suspense and the plot-question of Ben's desire for Mary is clearly stated, but there is a lack of original plot complica- tion. In the story in the last chapter it was seen that the introduc- tion of the physician as a former rival of the husband gave plot com- plication. In the same way we must get complication here. There the Villain or antagonist was not the physician but the addiction of the man to drink which was the bar to the happiness of the wife. Here we lack the villain, and hence there is lacking one element of plot. We put in a villain. In the original story the teacher was the villain. Suppose that we get a little melodramatic and call the Junior Partner of the concern for which Mary works the villain. If we do this we need to make the story a trifle more compact. We need to bring Ben, our protagonist; the Junior, the antagonist, and 2klary, the object, into closer relationship. We do this by changing the story so that Ben gets a position with the firm employing Mary. Ben is much in the way of the Junior, and so he is dismissed. Later Mary is per- suaded to give him up and so he returns home to wait. This would give us a scenario more like this: 17. ]\Iary and Ben are sweethearts. Mary does not appreciate Ben's devotion. She craves the excitement of city life and goes there to earn her living. Ben follows to protect her. They gain positions with the same concern, Mary in the office and Ben in the shipping room. The Junior Partner is attracted to Mary. He finds Ben in the way. He invents a pretext for dismissing Ben. He persuades Mary to give him up. Disconsolate. Ben returns home. Left to herself. Mary trusts to the Junior Partner. There is a secret marriage. One day Mary finds that the marriage was fictitious and that the Junior Partner is already married. Broken-hearted, she returns home and finds the faithful Ben still waiting for her. They are married. 18. This is better, but it is not enough. There is not yet sufficient complication to hold interest. It is still too simple and obvious. It works along the lines of least resistance. There is struggle but very little suspense, and there is a lack of crises of marked quality. Sup- pose we remember that the lamb might have helped along the orig- inal verse by following some tardy pupil into the school room again. In the same way we can bring Ben back to the city. This will have