Dual Characters

Dual Character: In a brief paragraph or two write down some characteristics/ physical features/ background of a character and then sum up a dual personality. See if you can create a conflict that they encounter or must overcome.


My character is Tallulah.

She grows up as an only child with a father that was never really part of her life and finally disappeared when she was four years old. Her mother was very protective of her after that. Strict bedtime. No sleepovers. All her friends must come to the house, she can't go to theirs. So when she gets the chance to leave home and go to college, she does the extreme and leaves her far east coast home for a far west coast college. In the eight years she spends at medical school she tries to completely forget her home, never returning to visit her mother and instead opting for phone calls throughout the years. When she is violated in a most awful way, she runs back to home to her mother and the east coast. She meets the man who has helped to take care of her mother and feels an immediate attraction, but because of what has happened to her she wants to focus on the unplanned pregnancy and her medical career. When her secrets come out, it is too late for her to make things right with her mother. She throws herself into the relationship with Evgeni and her medical career. She's a wonderful doctor---bright and quick, calm and collected. She finally realizes her place was always in Rockport but it takes her lots of heartache to understand that.

Her dual character is that she has always wanted to be a doctor. She is good at her job. Very smart and quick. Level headed. Easily works out solutions to the patients she's faced with.

But she runs from her own problems. First she runs from her overprotective mother. Second she runs from the west coast and back home. How odd she can perform a surgery on an ER patient but cannot face her own realities.

Is that correct? Because if so, I didn't even realize it myself until just now!! LOL