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Crazy Rich Asians: Part 4 - What Writers Can Learn

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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The Power Dominance Hierarchy

There's almost like a hierarchy of threshold guardian. So you've Amma at the top and that Eleanor under her, but then there are all of these minor characters who are participating in protecting their system. Amanda does it. I sort of have them vaguely as mean bachelorette party girls, the aunties. And so this kind of gatekeeping is a feature often of the power dominance hierarchy because it's always trying to keep people out and protect the existing system.

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