Social:Girl next door
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The girl next door is a young female stock character who is often used in romantic stories. She is named so because she often lives next door to the protagonist or is a childhood friend. They start out with a friendship that later often develops into romantic attraction. A similar expression is "boy next door".
Characteristics
A girl-next-door character is often portrayed as natural, innocent, and unpretentious. Evoking nostalgia, she is associated with small towns and local or even rural ways of life.[1] For example, the actress and singer Doris Day, "Hollywood's girl next door," renowned for her rom-com film roles in the 1950s, pioneered the type in film.[1][2] On television, the sitcom Gilligan's Island offered the character of Mary Ann Summers (portrayed by Dawn Wells), with her girl-next-door allure in contrast with the glamorous movie star character Ginger Grant (Tina Louise).[3] The show's long popularity led to the question "Ginger or Mary Ann?," a shorthand way to ask someone whether they preferred a girl-next-door type or a glamorous type.[4]
The love triangle is a common trope in fiction and often involves a male protagonist caught between his desire for two women, one of them the "sweet, ordinary, and caring girl next door" he grew up with, the other a more well-off or beautiful woman of lower morals. The male may pass over the latter for the girl next door,[5] or may himself be ignored by the beautiful woman as she pursues a more desirable man.[6]
See also
- Social:Farmer's daughter
- Social:Friend zone – Inability to move from a platonic relationship into a romantic one
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 McDonald, Tamar Jeffers (2013-09-27). Doris Day Confidential: Hollywood, Sex and Stardom. London: I.B. Tauris. pp. 77–86. ISBN 978-0-85772-279-9. OCLC 862101452.
- ↑ Glinton, Sonari (May 13, 2019). "Actress And Singer Doris Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door, Dies At 97". WPRL. https://www.wprl.org/npr-music/2019-05-13/actress-and-singer-doris-day-hollywoods-girl-next-door-dies-at-97.
- ↑ Erskine, Chris (August 22, 2019). "I invited Mary Ann to a Gilligan-themed tiki party — and she showed up". Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2019-08-21/i-invited-mary-ann-to-a-gilligan-themed-tiki-party-and-she-accepted.
- ↑ Fashingbauer Cooper, Gael (September 17, 2014). "Ginger or Mary Ann? 'Gilligan' fans still ponder question". Today. https://www.today.com/popculture/ginger-or-mary-ann-gilligan-fans-still-ponder-question-1D80149264.
- ↑ Ebert, Roger, ed (1999). Ebert's bigger little movie glossary: a greatly expanded and much improved compendium of movie clichés, stereotypes, obligatory scenes, hackneyed formulas, shopworn conventions, and outdated archetypes. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel. ISBN 0-7407-9246-6. OCLC 829154479.
- ↑ Szanter, Ashley; Richards, Jessica K., eds (August 14, 2017). Romancing the zombie : essays on the undead as significant "other". Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. pp. 45. ISBN 978-1-4766-6742-3. OCLC 987796701.
Further reading
- Levine, Michal P.; Schneider, Steven Jay (2003). "Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door". in South, James B.. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Open Court. pp. 294–308. ISBN 978-0-8126-9531-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=dx_n2IDCJqUC&q=%22Feeling+for+Buffy%3A+The+Girl+Next+Door.%22&pg=PA294.
- From a review: "To Michal Levine and Steven Jay Schneider ... Buffy is just another unconscious Freudian reality tale starring the proverbial girl next door." in: Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books, and More
- Frank, Rich (February 20, 1994). "Journal: The Girl Next Door". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/20/opinion/journal-the-girl-next-door.html.
- The article criticizes Sports Illustrated for their misuse of term "girl next door": "Otherwise the magazine is still pushing what Ms. Brinkley repeatedly described as the "natural beauty" of "what readers long for – the girl next door". Who is the girl next door? Her fake name keeps changing but she is still the same empty-headed, smiling, air-brushed mannequin who appeared in Playboy in the 1950s and early 60s..."
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