Plot Drives Character and Character Drives Plot

•  A forty-year-old divorcee who hasn’t seen a child support payment in five years is not going to have the same impression of men as a love struck teenager on Prom Night.

• A milquetoast middle-aged accountant is not going the react to a drink being spilled on him in a bar the same way a 25 year old hothead who has just watched the sports team he loves lose a game because of a bad call by an official.