coping with being washed up theme

Someone copes with having once been successful at what they did but then failed to keep up with.

29 total · 5 choice · 18 major · 6 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
as1985e1x08	choice	The story follows Lou Bungles, a formerly world famous stage magician, who, now bumbling and old, was reluctant to ride off into the sunset.
movie: All About Eve (1950)	choice	At the center of the story is Margo Channing, an aging Broadway star. She had recently turned 40 and was self-conscious about it. Her worry turned into borderline hysteria when she was eclipsed, and had her position usurped, by a younger and equally talented actress: Eve Harrington. The story ended with the implication that Eve herself might well have the same fate to look forwards to, as she was contrasted with the even younger Phoebe.
rbt1985e3x07	choice	The point of the story is to feature two authors, Dudley and John, that, at different points in time, found themselves just sufficiently past the apogee of their respective careers that the monotonous and inevitable decline ahead of them had become apparent. Each was hounded by a younger up-and-coming rival. Dudley escaped this fate by letting John "kill" his author persona, thus exiting the writing profession while at the pinnacle of his fame. The story ends with John desperately looking for his own way out.
tftc1989e5x03	choice	Dalton was a past-his-prime war photographer who had designs on using his protégé to rise back to prominence.
tz1959e1x04	choice	Barbara refused to owe up to the fact tat she was not a young actress sensation anymore.
ahh3x14	major	Rudolph Bitzner was a washed-up vaudevillian actor who dreamed of a comeback.
ahp4x28	major	The once-celebrated film actor Oliver lamented that time had moved on and he was no longer being cast for the prominent roles that he used to be.
ahp6x08	major	The middle aged man Cash refused to own up to the fact that he was no longer a champion caliber hurdler.
ahp6x18	major	The washed up horror actor Ernst von Croft saw starring in Morty's low-budget horror film as his ticket back to the big time.
ahp7x26	major	Soldier Fresno was an unremarkable over-the-hill boxer until he started letting his manager inject him with special "vitamins".