So does Dante in the count of Monte Cristo, Jean Valjean in Les miserables, I am sure there are more that I don’t know about.
Its worse for the girls – mostly either ‘girl dies’ or ‘girl marries boy who became rich kid’.
He had a theme.
Tale of Two Cities – Poor guy loses his head.
Kafka took a different route, Metamorphosis – poor guy becomes a spider; now that’s definitely a poor guy who has no breaks.
Great Expectations is poor kid becomes rich kid (spoilers!) becomes poor again.
MotherOfMoses almost 9 years ago
So does Dante in the count of Monte Cristo, Jean Valjean in Les miserables, I am sure there are more that I don’t know about.
GrimmaTheNome almost 9 years ago
Its worse for the girls – mostly either ‘girl dies’ or ‘girl marries boy who became rich kid’.
Perkycat almost 9 years ago
He had a theme.
stamps almost 9 years ago
Tale of Two Cities – Poor guy loses his head.
MotherOfMoses almost 9 years ago
Kafka took a different route, Metamorphosis – poor guy becomes a spider; now that’s definitely a poor guy who has no breaks.
strangeways almost 6 years ago
Great Expectations is poor kid becomes rich kid (spoilers!) becomes poor again.