Unlocking the Mystery: The Surprising Secret to Choosing the Perfect Protagonist
That could work.
Option 2: Make the Wife Your Protagonist
This could be a lot of work, so why would you want to choose this option?
Maybe because you were actually more in tune with the wife from the beginning, even though you didn’t realize it.
It may be that, all along, your theme has been about repression of women by male authority figures and patriarchal power systems. In a year like this one, that could play extremely well.
It may be that you didn’t realize this was your theme. It may be that the theme developed organically and now you’re seeing that it’s at odds with the story you started telling.
