In the stage lights, it seemed, she and the character were trying to find each other.

If you take the long view, which this character tries to do, they could even be called general.

Her character tries to sleep with 50 guys before she goes to college.

The movie is about the characters trying to put an exercise machine together.

Throughout the play, characters are either killing each other, trying to or talking of having someone killed.

Was there a problem the characters were trying to solve?

For example, my characters try to figure out their relationship to the Holocaust.

The characters in the book try to find out who the murderer is.

"I found that Mark wasn't just this character trying to make a dumb movie," he said.

The characters then try to change something in the present which prevents that future from coming to pass.