If the above story has to be dramatized , what do think is lacking in it?
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Is it possible to write a good story without conflict?
If by "good story" you mean an engaging story there's no way to write it without some kind of obstacles that stand between the protagonist and his goal. These obstacles can be created by other people (conflict), himself (internal conflict) or forces of nature. No obstacles means no story. E.g.:
He wanted to marry her, so he proposed. She said yes. Their families were happy. They had a great wedding and lived happily ever after. The end.
Whether this story takes two lines or a thousands pages it still has the same problem: it's mindbogglingly dull. We don't care. We want the guy to struggle to get what he wants. We want to root for him. We want a reason to care.
Now let's add some obstacles:
External conflict: their families hate each other's guts. You know what happens next.
Internal conflict: he loves her, but he is a priest. Yes, her name is Esmeralda.
Forces of nature: everyone is happy, but on the day of their wedding a volcano erupts creating a flow of glowing lava between them. Yet to be written by someone, but you get the idea.
Out of these three options the last one is the least interesting. Obstacles created by someone's will are much more interesting than powerful but mindless forces of nature.
Bottom line, you cannot write a good story without obstacles and a conflict is the best way to create them.
Note: Internal conflicts in particular can be very tricky and don't even appear as such. Yet, they are still conflicts. A great example of such story is Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. While it does have some some external conflict they are not essential to the story. Yet the novel is built around a strong internal conflict: the quest of the protagonist to find the purpose of his existence. In fact it's a sequence of internal conflicts between his need have a purpose and the lack of satisfactory answers offered by his surroundings at different stages of his life. And only when this conflict is resolved the novel comes to its climax.
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