The Case Against the Trauma Plot

Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. Parul Sehgal on whether this trope deepens characters, or flattens them into a set of symptoms.

The Case Against the Trauma Plot

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The case FOR the trauma plot? How writers can use it with purpose

The case FOR the trauma plot? How writers can use it with purpose

The Trauma Plot

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The case FOR the trauma plot? How writers can use it with purpose

A Posthumous Shock, by Will Self

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