To begin with, Ismene was doomed to complete one of her two jobs from the beginning. The first of her two jobs throughout the plot was to pursuade Antigone from buring her brother. We know she was going to be unsucsessful at this because of throughout the plot Antigone shows to be to very tough to change; unwilling to change whatsoever. In the text, Ismene says "You'd bury him when a law forbids the city?" This shows Antigone's lack of willingness to change even if the law comands her two. Already on the loosing side of the debate it is only certian that Ismene could not make her mark on the plot through not completing her
