He treats uncertainty and risk-taking as challenges at work. As a consultant, he has learned to be an adept team player. But these forms of flexible behavior have not served Rico in his roles as a father or as a member of a community. Rico is caught in a trap. What is missing is a narrative that could organize his conduct.
Narratives are more than simple chronicles of events.
They give shape to the forward movement of time, suggesting reasons why things happen, showing their consequences. Enrico had a narrative for his life, linear and cumulative, a narrative that made sense in a highly bureaucratic world. Rico lives in a world marked instead by short-term flexibility and flux. This world does not offer much, either economically or socially, in the way of narrative. Corporations break up or join together, jobs appear and disappear, as events lacking connections.