Can it be vague at the start of a story?
For Example - In Shawshank Redemption the relationship problem is coined "Institutionalized" at the midpoint when they talk about Brooks dying and we see him try to make it outside the prison as a free man.
At the end we understand that the story argues that having Hope, using Hope, will allow a person to overcome their "institutionalized state"
At the start of the film we don't know that this is the Relationship Problem.
But we are led to see how a man could find himself in that state...we see Andy's daily routines, we see him being abused by fellow prisoners...we see the power the warden and his security guards have.
Or do we?
The way in which the antagonists, and sometimes even the protagonists go about getting what they want will reveal in the most subtle of ways what the Relationship Problem is in your story from the first scene to the last.
In Shawshank Redemption the Relationship Problem is Suppression.
During Andy's trial, instead of arguing, fighting to stay out of jail, instead of demanding the prosecutor to check the facts, instead of doing anything at all to convince them that he did not kill his wife and her lover...he suppresses his emotions, he suppresses any fight within himself.
Once he gets into prison and he's raped by other prisoners...he begins to stop suppressing a little bit at a time...the same way he chips at the prison wall a little bit at a time.
For Example - In Shawshank Redemption the relationship problem is coined "Institutionalized" at the midpoint when they talk about Brooks dying and we see him try to make it outside the prison as a free man.
At the end we understand that the story argues that having Hope, using Hope, will allow a person to overcome their "institutionalized state"
At the start of the film we don't know that this is the Relationship Problem.
But we are led to see how a man could find himself in that state...we see Andy's daily routines, we see him being abused by fellow prisoners...we see the power the warden and his security guards have.
Or do we?
The way in which the antagonists, and sometimes even the protagonists go about getting what they want will reveal in the most subtle of ways what the Relationship Problem is in your story from the first scene to the last.
In Shawshank Redemption the Relationship Problem is Suppression.
During Andy's trial, instead of arguing, fighting to stay out of jail, instead of demanding the prosecutor to check the facts, instead of doing anything at all to convince them that he did not kill his wife and her lover...he suppresses his emotions, he suppresses any fight within himself.
Once he gets into prison and he's raped by other prisoners...he begins to stop suppressing a little bit at a time...the same way he chips at the prison wall a little bit at a time.
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