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15579155 No.15579155 [Reply] [Original]

>Protagonist is good looking but poor
>Falls in love with a woman/girl, she rejects him because he isn't a rich guy
>Protagonist then works his ass off to earn money
>He still goes after the same materialistic woman
>Book ends with either them getting together, or the woman rejecting him yet again for a richer guy.
Explain this trope to me? Is it because it was different time? Why are older romance novels so weird?

>> No.15579157

Take a look my girlfriend!

>> No.15579164

Think of women as pretty objects and it makes sense. If you want a playstation you work hard and buy it at the end.

>> No.15579171

>>15579164
Your playstation won't leave for some guy who makes more money than you.

>> No.15579174

>>15579155
It's just crypto pedestal pussy worship. The unobtainable woman is a symbol of fuck all nothing and the author is almost certainly gay.

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>>15579155
>Is it because it was different time?
Nothing has changed. That exact trope still constantly plays out in fiction and irl exactly as you described it. Women are biologically predisposed to go for whoever can provide for them best

>> No.15579183

>>15579171
It would if he made me a respectable offer

>> No.15579186

>>15579155
It’s not about love or the woman. The story is about the man becoming successful and the female love interest is symbolic proof that he made it. She’s just a caricature.

>> No.15579248

>>15579183
>It would if he made me a respectable offer
We're talking about your playstation leaving you against your wishes.

>> No.15579267

>>15579248
In this theoretical novel of me getting a playstation it up and leaving would happen afterwards. The point is that I work hard and grow as a person so that I can achieve my dream of owning a playstation. That's all there is to the trope, really.

>> No.15579832

>>15579155
Post 3 books where this happens?

>> No.15579853

>>15579155
Explain this trope to me?
They fell for the realism meme.

>> No.15580528

>>15579157
What?

>> No.15580560

i like this one more
>protagonist is good looking/cool/talented w/e and poor
>woman good looking young and married to a rich guy
>poor good looking guy fucks the girl and steals her from her husband

>> No.15580582

>>15580560
Never happens.

>> No.15581782

>>15579248
You'll eventually lose it someone anyway.

>> No.15581796

>>15579832
this is the story of aladdin for one

>> No.15582035

>>15579832
>The Great Gatsby
>Great Expectations
>Pride and Prejudice
I didn't read the last one, but it's written by a woman, so it mostly likely had those tropes

>> No.15583198

>>15580582
It always happens lol, girls go for adventure rather than money in every book, very notable in both war and peace and anna karenina

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>>15579155
>poor good looking guy
>is always poor but he climbs the social ladder through work, slight manipulation, and sophistication
>fucks rich women out of revenge
this is the better trope

>> No.15583235

>>15579179
Are you biologically predisposed to being a whiny bitch on the internet?

>> No.15583354

Great Expectations?

>> No.15583773

>>15582035
>Pride and Prejudice
Not really, it actually kind of goes against that trope

>> No.15584354

>>15579832
Martin eden

>> No.15585501

>>15583224
Post Books based on that trope?

>> No.15585571

>>15583198

Yes, but the point is they like having the money first, and if possible, with the adventure.

>> No.15585592

>>15579155
>Protagonist doesn't exercise
>Eats shit food
>Smokes and Drinks
>Has an 8 pack

>> No.15585642

>>15579157
She's the only one I got.

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>>15583235
What part of my reply was whining exactly? I merely stated objective facts

>> No.15586654

>>15585592
How does he do it?

>> No.15587215

>>15585642
Ba ba da da

>> No.15588617

Simps have always existed

>> No.15588661

>>15579157
Don't you look at my girlfriend!

>> No.15589301

>>15583224
literally my diary desu

>> No.15589887

>>15579179
as a white man, there's literally nothing stopping you from making money.

>> No.15590804

>>15589887
>as a white man, there's literally nothing stopping you from making money.
Bullshit.