Character debate

In the character chapter (4), I see that there is this small debate about “character-driven stories,” and “situational-driven stories.” The question is… where do I fall? I thought long and hard about this because I like both points that each author makes, Shelby Foote and Stephen King, that it is either characters that come first or situation that comes first. Even though I feel that characters are the most important parts of a story and are the figures that readers can relate to, I think I have to say that I prefer situation first over character. I like the feeling of knowing the basis of the story and begin to make predictions about what could happen. Now, after thinking about this for awhile, I’m questioning if you can get both character and situation at the same time. If you read on, it describes how there needs to be a point of view. Well, if you have a point of view and a situation, doesn’t that describe both? And wouldn’t that solve all this debate? My short story that I’m writing is in first person POV and I feel like I’m offering my readers the character and the situation all at once, killing two birds with one stone. What do you think??