The Warrior section tends to begin when the hero/heroine has all the tools/allies/knowledge they think they need to achieve their “Professional”, “Personal” and “Private” goals. So, after moving through the Wanderer section, Rebecca has achieved the following:

– Professional goal: Rebecca has figured out that she can pay off her debt by rising higher in the magazine’s ranks.

– Personal goal: she understands that she has a shopping addiction.

– Private goal: she has met her new boss, Luke, whom she likes.

So it’s in the Warrior that Rebecca actively fights to achieve these goals.

Professional: Rebecca accompanies Luke to a business conference, capitalizes on her identity as a business writer and generally gets more involved with the biz.

Private: she spends more time with Luke in a personal manner: going with him to the conference, dancing the Tango, competing with the model, etc. (Because her Professional and Private goals both effectively revolve around Luke, they often operated in tandem.)

Personal: she attends a ‘shopaholics anonymous’ group, asks her friend for help, and generally tries to keep the urges in check.

I found that her Personal goal also provided many of the complications for the Professional and Private goals. Indeed, all three are often related and dependent on one another.

It’s true that Rebecca was reacting to complications, but most of them arose as a result of her proactively pursuing her goals.

Hoped that helped clear things up a bit, and cheers for your question!

Dan.

It’s interesting to see a movie like this analyzed so I’d be curious to hear what you think.