Question?

[marylahree]

I'm working on an idea for a comedy. My character, a male, is posing as a high profile female, and as such is deceiving the world. A fellow writer suggested that my synopsis lacks, right from it's beginning, a character who is a conflict to my protagonist. My question: Is such a conflicting character always a necessary element to a marketable story? Because my protagonist himself is in conflict, perhaps no longer want to play the role of the high profile female, yet can't see a feasible way out. Meanwhile, the very public role of the female is a constant overshadowing of my protagonist's private life. He must constantly play a mute when in public, as his masculine voice would give away the fact that he is male. He wants to begin a family with his (gay) partner, needs to find a suitable surrogate to do so, but can't search through conventional methods due to the risk of exposing his female alter ego. Is this not enough conflict? Or is it not the correct sort of conflict needed? The comedy is that he ends up becoming his own surrogate through genetic engineering - is carrying sextuplets - but in the process of fulfilling that aspect of his private life, is inevitably exposed as the high profile imposture. He risks all to gain, and looses all in spite of it , (his illegally cloned babies are seized for scientific study), but in the end he fights to get them back, and wins the world's admiration on his own merit. So while I could possibly create conflict with one of the existing support characters is it needed? Thanks for any feedback.