The Adversary is as essential in writing a good fictional story as it is in living a healthy spiritual story. Your main antagonistic force is that which forces your protagonist forward, bringing to the surface what your story is actually about, whether fictionally or spiritually.

The Gap is an inconvenient element, sometimes incredibly painful, but from the meta-view of telling a good story, it’s unavoidable. Furthermore, it’s only because of the Gap that any kind of growth or transformation becomes possible. As McKee says, it’s only by the power of the Gap that a character is forced to “dig more deeply into [their] human capacity” to be able to move forward and become more fully their True Selves.