Some common family drama storylines include:
History is the ghost in every room. A parent’s favorite child, an inheritance promised then rescinded, a sacrifice no one acknowledges. These events happened years ago, but they live in every current argument. In The Corrections , Jonathan Franzen shows how a single mother’s well-intentioned rigidity shapes three adult children who can’t stop reacting to versions of each other that no longer exist.
A sibling who stayed home to care for aging parents often feels a simmering resentment toward the "successful" sibling who moved away. The Proxy War:
