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If you view your main character as the "hero" of your story, you need to make sure that he has the trappings of a hero, which are, simply, that he has a certain flaw or weakness. Whatever it is it's necessary in order to make your hero human.
Like the good Catholic priest who works 17 hours a day for his congregation, fasts two days a week and is an alcoholic. Priests who are just good, decent men aren't as interesting as the priest with a taste for a bottle of wine each night with dinner. Or the priest who likes women. Or the gay priest.
In real life we feel compassion for the "hero" who has been wounded in some way: the athlete who is hurt just before his tryout for the Olympics and must wait four years to compete for the gold.
The girl from the wrong side of the tracks with no father and depressed mother who has a beautiful singing voice and dreams of going to Julliard and is up for a full scholarship, but must audition and the day before her audition she's mugged and has her throat slashed and her vocal chords are damaged and she must undergo rigorous therapy and surgery to regain her talent. You see the heroic journey she must take and we are willing to accompany her.
Characters in films and real life who have everything going for them are boring. They only become interesting when "something happens" that changes their fortune. The rich guy who loses everything and is poor and sees life from a different angle and must try to regain his wealth.
The beautiful, self-centered, popular girl who is scarred in an accident and ultimately learns who her real friends are.
Bottom line: make sure your main character has baggage that gets in his way as he tries to accomplish something, well, heroic.
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