Analysis Ordinary People

Has anyone analyzed Ordinary People with Mary Tyler Moore? A couple scenes identify the mother and son as being alike…so i am thinking he is MC and she is IC, but also thinking she is the Antagonist. Thoughts?

It hasn’t been. I brought it up a couple of years ago because it seems to have two story forms and Chris seemed to believe so as well. One of the story forms would have Conrad as the MC and the other would have Calvin as the MC. Interestingly, Robert McKee sees it similarly, at least in the non-Dramatica context, with Calvin being the lead of the main story and Conrad the lead of the subplot.

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Thank you! Seeing it as two story forms is helpful. I hope it comes up for a dramatica group analysis.