She really does have a gorgeous place, and it says something indeed about Lebanon's infrastructure and political situation that even someone who's as well-to-do as she appears to be can't get guaranteed electricity.
Your self-reflections seem really perceptive. You're both an artist AND a storyteller, and so it's hard for you to let go of the story aspect. I get that ENTIRELY. I have a similar problem: I can stall out on telling a story if I don't know how things work in the world/place I'm imagining--kind of like you wondering why the guy wanted to get rid of the magic beans. ... Maybe it's not just being a storyteller; maybe it's also caring about/wanting to understand why things happen. In real life, something hard to understand will happen, and a lot of times a lot of people will just kind of shrug and say, "Well, that's life; weird stuff happens"--but maybe you (and me, a lot of the time) can't settle for that. We want to understand better than that. Which is why you care about the guy with the beans. Some things are ultimately unknowable, so sometimes we *do* have to just shrug and not try to inquire further, but knowing when we can or should ask for more and when it's better not to--well. That's a hard one, for sure.
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Your self-reflections seem really perceptive. You're both an artist AND a storyteller, and so it's hard for you to let go of the story aspect. I get that ENTIRELY. I have a similar problem: I can stall out on telling a story if I don't know how things work in the world/place I'm imagining--kind of like you wondering why the guy wanted to get rid of the magic beans. ... Maybe it's not just being a storyteller; maybe it's also caring about/wanting to understand why things happen. In real life, something hard to understand will happen, and a lot of times a lot of people will just kind of shrug and say, "Well, that's life; weird stuff happens"--but maybe you (and me, a lot of the time) can't settle for that. We want to understand better than that. Which is why you care about the guy with the beans. Some things are ultimately unknowable, so sometimes we *do* have to just shrug and not try to inquire further, but knowing when we can or should ask for more and when it's better not to--well. That's a hard one, for sure.