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.

Dik Trom dan gadis buta sebelah (oleh Johan Braakensiek)

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..."