The Subjective Story Throughline is the story's Passionate Argument. This is where the author creates meaning for the audience's emotional appraisal of a story's message. The primary focus is on the relationship between the Main and Impact Characters. Since the Main and Impact Characters are, by definition, at odds with each other, the Subjective Story Throughline forms the background against which the battle between them is fought. As a result, choosing a Class as the Subjective Story Throughline affects how a story feels to an audience.

Situation as Subjective Story Domain

A Subjective Story Throughline of Situation has the Main and Impact Characters in conflict over a situation that exists between them. This includes a marriage contract, a business partnership, or a chain of military command. It also includes being a caregiver to an invalid, any kind of employment situation, and all other relationships "stuck" in the real world. To illustrate a Subjective Story Throughline of Situation properly, you need to create a situation principally limited to a relationship between the Main and Impact Characters. It should involve the past, present, progress, or future.

Activity as Subjective Story Domain

If Activity is the Subjective Story Throughline, the Main and Impact Characters grapple over an activity. This could be an activity that is leading toward a purpose or just something engaged in for its own rewards. It might even be a harmful activity engaged in as a means of punishing oneself to relieve guilt. Both Main and Impact may be striving to outdo each other at this activity. Or, one may be for the activity and the other against it. Anyway, the activity lies at the heart of the difficulties between them and forms the subject of the story's passionate argument of Activity is the Subjective Story Throughline.

Fixed Attitude as Subjective Story Domain

When you select Fixed Attitude as the Subjective Story Throughline, fixed attitudes or mindsets form the battleground of the Main and Impact Characters. How many fixed attitudes can we see as a personal point of conflict between two people? A prejudice, political view, religion, an attitude toward a child or parent, or a feeling of worthlessness does the trick. A scenario that portrays the troubles between the Main and Impact Characters revolving around a fixed state of mind, successfully represents Fix Attitude as the Subjective Story Throughline.

Manipulation as Subjective Story Domain

Manipulation as the Subjective Story Throughline has the Main and Impact Characters diverging over a manner of thinking. They do not conflict over what they think, but how they think. Phrases like, "You always get this way when we argue," and "No, I don't - it's you that keeps changing subjects," suggest a psychological conflict between the Main and Impact Characters. When how someone works something out becomes the issue between the Main and Impact Characters, the Subjective Story Throughline most likely is Manipulation.