Surely there are many options available in defining plot forms. I want to discuss just two quite distinct kinds. The first is the typical movie plot, which begins with a felt discrepancy and moves to an unknown resolution. In the movie High Noon, the discrepancy consists essentially in the fact that the town marshal has fallen in love with a woman who is a pacifist. The price of their engagement and marriage is that he will resign his position as marshal, and together they will take up