In those happily ever after stories we’ve all been brainwashed to love since childhood, the New Situation in which the character finds himself is often the polar opposite of his Imperfect Situation in Act One. This is because, through undertaking the journey of the story, the character has achieved his Initial Desire. By overcoming the obstacles and antagonism that stood between him and a seemingly unrelated physical goal, he has obtained the one thing he so desperately wanted all along.
