Character Development week #2

Ok, so if you haven't kept up with my other posts, that's fine, you'll still understand this one. I'm going to be examining how all of the characters in my book, The Innocent, develop throughout the text and advance the plot. Well, in this book, The characters are the plot. The whole story is about how the main character, Matt, also an ex-felon, thinks that his wife is cheating on him during her supposed trip to Boston for work. Then he catches this guy following him and he finds out where he's staying. He goes to this guy's apartment and the guy, a flat character that totally turns round, where the narrator spends about a page on him, beats up Matt when he shows up and runs. Then the private investigator Matt hired when he found that guy following him shows up and sees his wife taking care of him. That's where I am going to leave it for now in the plotline and Segway into characters. So Matt starts out as just this guy in prison for accidentally killing a guy. Then it jumps to him getting out and having a family, showing the dynamic changes that are occurring inside of him. His wife is happy and they are about to have their first kid, when she just jumps off the ship. He is devastated by this and that shows yet another side of him. Then, he shows how he had to be in prison, confronting the guy who was following him, by just going in there to cause damage. Of course, only Matt is hurt in that confrontation. I think that the author is very cleverly making almost every character, even the more minor ones, show another side based on the events that are happening. Almost like as he's writing the story, he's piling on the different personalities all at the same time that a major event in the plot happens. That's all for now, next week I will probably examine what I am beginning to see of the plot.