Tara, you hit on a really important point: Mr. Rogers is not the Protagonist for an obvious reason in that he doesn’t change. He’s a change agent in this case helping Lloyd to change. From a characters archetype standpoint, Mr. Rogers is a Mentor to Lloyd (we’ll get into that more deeply later this week).

Also well noted that three subplot relationships — Lloyd and Andrea, Lloyd and Jerry, Lloyd and Mr. Rogers — all reflect aspects of Lloyd’s metamorphosis.

Good observations!