Gadis sebelah pintu
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Gadis sebelah pintu ialah watak saham wanita muda yang sering digunakan dalam cerita romantik. Dia dinamakan sedemikian kerana dia sering tinggal bersebelahan dengan protagonis atau kawan zaman kanak-kanak. Mereka bermula dengan persahabatan bersama yang kemudiannya sering berkembang menjadi tarikan romantis.
Ungkapan yang serupa ialah "budak sebelah pintu".
Bacaan lanjut
- Levine, Michal P.; Schneider, Steven Jay (2003). "Feeling for Buffy: The Girl Next Door". Dalam South, James B. (penyunting). Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Open Court. m/s. 294–308. ISBN 978-0-8126-9531-1.
- 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. Diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 2009-05-03. Dicapai pada January 30, 2018.
- 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..."