Can overlap with Single Woman Seeks Good Man as it is the guy's personality that wins her heart (as is the case mentioned above). Compare with All Girls Want Bad Boys, which often follows the same socioeconomic groups (or the inverse, if the girl is The Ingenue and the boy is a Gentleman Snarker or Spoiled Brat). If it's not just the fact that she comes from money, but that he feels like she's above him, she's a Peerless Love Interest. Also often leads to cases of I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me, either with a severe case of insecurity (like the third type above), or simply the poor guy being constantly feeling lucky and appreciative that someone so rich could fall for him. When this happens with royalty, these arrangements are commonly called "morganatic" marriages.Ī relationship variant of the Odd Couple and quite often overlaps with Nobody Thinks It Will Work. Note that the roles aren't locked by gender: a working-class girl who loves a rich boy also fits this trope, as do two lovers of the same gender. When the rich girl wants nothing to do with the poor guy, but slowly warms up to him, it's a different trope entirely. As before, she doesn't care about such things and has to convince him that he's the one she wants. When he finds out, he's either intimidated by her wealth once he finds out, or else doesn't think he's good enough for her.
The poor guy falls for the rich girl, even though he knows that she's out of his league.People around them, however, do and conspire to interfere with True Love.
The poor guy and rich girl mutually fall in love, and neither one cares about their differences in wealth.In any case, this is usually played out in one of three ways: Will their love be enough to let them be happy together? Maybe they've been friends their whole lives and the difference in status never really mattered. Maybe she has a habit of slipping out to the seedier side of town for a night of fun. The poor girl has fallen in love with the Gentleman Snarker, or the stable boy secretly courts the princess. Our lovers are from different worlds - one wealthy, one not.
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