: Re: Successful stories that don't follow the standard story template? I'm mulling over a story that doesn't follow the standard story template of: Hero (or anti-hero) Hero has problem (or is problem)

That particular structure is called the "Hero's Journey," and yes, there are many stories which aren't.

1984, Animal Farm, Death of a Salesman, Brokeback Mountain — look for stories with sad endings, because that often means the hero
didn't succeed in overcoming the problem, and wasn't transformed.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is literally a day in the life of a prisoner in a gulag, so there isn't any kind of journey
there.
I realize it's an episode of a TV show and not a novel, but Star
Trek: Voyager had a two-parter called "Year of Hell." Alternate
timelines were heavily featured. At the end of part two, the Reset
Button is hit, and all the alternate timelines are wiped out. The
antagonist decides not to start the temporal mucking about, which
might sort of qualify as "transformed," but no one remembers the
events of the episodes, so no problem is overcome.

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