If you reach back far enough to your 9th grade English classroom, you might remember three types of conflicts: man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. self.
If you reach back far enough to your 9th grade English classroom, you might remember three types of conflicts: man vs. man, man vs. nature, and man vs. self. This distinction is one way of parsing the basic plots of all stories—but not the only way.