Gadis sebelah pintu

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
 
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
 
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..."

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