bildungsroman v. roman a clef: success v. failure

Among the components of a bildungsroman:
To spur the hero or heroine on to their journey, some form of loss or discontent must jar them at an early stage away from the home or family setting.
The process of maturity is long, arduous, and gradual, consisting of repeated clashes between the protagonist's needs and desires and the views and judgments enforced by an unbending social order.
Eventually, the spirit and values of the social order become manifest in the protagonist, who is then accommodated into society. The novel ends with an assessment by the protagonist of himself/herself and his/her new place in that society.
Within the genre, an Entwicklungsroman is a story of general growth rather than self-culture; an Erziehungsroman focuses on training and formal education; and a Künstlerroman is about the development of an artist.

A roman à clef or roman à clé (French for "novel with a key") is a novel describing real-life events behind a façade of fiction. The "key", not present in the text, is the correlation between events and characters in the novel and events and characters in real life.
The reasons an author might choose the roman à clef format include:
Satire
Writing about controversial topics and/or reporting inside information on scandals without giving rise to charges of libel
The opportunity to turn the tale the way the author would like it to have gone



So I guess if I suceed, it'll be a bildungsroman and a roman a clef. And if I don't, it'll just be a roman a clef. Some reviewer wrote about Strawberry Saroyan's memoir (which was definately a roman a clef not a bildungsroman) that she was "chewed up and spit back out by New York." What a scary thought.