While it is possible to hamfist several narratives to growing tension and resolution, we know of the existence of Jo-ha-kyū and Scandanavian storytelling structure (in which multiple characters are presented with a 'red thread', often in the form of a common mythology, tying them together) among several several others.<p>This notion was critiqued decades ago, as in Ursula Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory Of Fiction [0] which itself references even earlier work that critiques this idea of a universal structure of tension/climax/resolution.<p>0. <a href="http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction" rel="nofollow">http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-...</a>
Kurt Vonnegut talked about this too:<p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2014/02/kurt-vonnegut-masters-thesis-rejected-by-u-chicago.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.openculture.com/2014/02/kurt-vonnegut-masters-th...</a>
I find it really weird all the uses of "bourgeois". It reads like an insult to the characters and is very insensitive to how criminal communism was and still is. It feels like reading something sprinkled with words popularized from Mein Kampf, if there are any.