Does my protagonist have an internal arc?

With my recent rewrites, I kind of lost sight of this (thanks to everyone who helped me!) and I think I’m going to try to rework those scenes from scratch. But first, I have to figure out if any of it works. I know that I can say my protagonist has an internal arc, but I have to see if it’s consistent.<br><br>Here is the list of scenes and what her internal arc should be:<br><br>* When we first see her as a child, she’s afraid of her traditions and doesn’t understand them. She’s only starting to connect with her family, and she doesn’t see that as the reason why she’s afraid.<br>* The scene where we first see her as an adult, she doesn’t connect with her traditions anymore and has trouble connecting with her family. She wishes they could be more modern and she believes that she’s afraid because she’s a coward.<br>* The scene where she talks about her past and her traditions, she’s starting to connect with her traditions again. She’s started to see her family as the reason why she was afraid of her traditions.<br>* The scene where she talks about her past and the initial incident, she’s started to see the connection between the traditions and family.<br>* The scene where she talks about her past and the final incident, she’s figured out the full connection between the traditions and family, and started to see that she was run away with fear.<br>* The scene where she talks about her past and the aftermath, she’s started to see her past more clearly and the connection between her traditions and family. She’s realized that she was trying to protect herself and her family, and that she was run away with fear.<br>* The scene where she talks about her past and her consequences, she’s figured out much of her past and started to see a path forward.<br>* When we see her as an adult at the end, she connects with her traditions and family and isn’t afraid.<br><br>I was thinking of reworking these scenes from scratch, with only my protagonist, her narrative voice, and the dialogue (especially her dialogue). My idea is to write it from the first person, and have her tell a shadowy figure in a dark room her backstory. I could then use that as a framework to refine and edit the scenes that I have. My hope is that it will be more intimate and personal for the protagonist and allow us to get closer to her inner thoughts and feelings.<br><br>Thoughts?