Again , sadly absent . The only times he tried to get something out of her she was pretty affable and he didn ' t push much further than that . I suspect he doesn ' t care that much about the things she does that annoy the folks on here about her . <| sep |> I actually was carrying up until to the last 30 seconds . <| sep |> Conflict does require an antagonist , but the antagonist doesn ' t have to be a person , let alone even a living thing . The antagonist could simply be a disaster , the environment , or situation that must be overcome . An example is from the book the hatchet , where the protagonist is stranded alone in the wilderness after a plane crash , and must survive . The antagonist here would be nature and the elements .