as all plots should be, by the dramatic question: who was Ana going to be? When Archer and Jockers laid out the plot of Fifty Shades of Grey on a graph, it turned out to take an intriguing form. It made a roughly symmetrical pattern of constriction and release that travelled across five peaks and four valleys, each of which came regularly. It was strikingly similar to another novel that seemed to come from nowhere and into sales
