The
trophy girlfriend/wife
The
younger the hero the more likely he is to approach the most beautiful woman in
the room. Don’t blame him. It is only natural or part of our evolution through
natural selection.
The
problem arises if he is fixated on looks and fails to develop a relationship
that is mature, fails to recognize qualities like an empathetic or good heart
as I have addressed last week.
In
case of these failures, the hero needs to grow (and what an arc that would be).
The term trophy girlfriend/wife objectifies and diminishes the woman. The hero
may not think he’s attracted to a trophy. He may simply be overwhelmed with the
desire to possess, but that’s a different problem.
Picture
a gorgeous woman on the arms of a powerful man. Will people label them? Did he
marry a trophy? Did she marry for money? It doesn’t matter. It’s what’s in
their hearts that count. Only the writer knows for sure when he/she writes this
kind of story.
There
are thousands of songs or odes to beauty, so I’ll just pick arbitrarily (well
with the accent on the young).
Frankie
Avalon, 1959, Venus.
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