Posted by The Professor on February 27, 1998 at 23:21:25:
Did anyone else notice how Keith Gersen, especially, but other protagonists also seem to fall for a particular type of woman.
She is usually of a higher social/economic/race/??? class than the hero (Emphyrio, The Killing Machine, The Face). She is not only attractive but often haughty, almost unattaniable, and at first, not at all interested in him.
This perfect "adolescent" dream girl/woman is almost always hard to get, but eventually comes to respect and sometimes like our protagonist. But alas, things generally never work out in the long run.
Of course there are exceptions to this (The Pnume, Lyonesse, the
gypsy Sherl in one of the Alastor books).
Comments please?