Cinderella is a story about a young girl who is mistreated by her step-mother and is denied the opportunity to go to the local ball. Her fairy godmother appears and gives her everything she needs to be the most dazzling guest and gives her a curfew of midnight before her magic dissipates. When the time comes, she leaves behind a glass slipper, which the prince uses to find her after the mall and marry her. In Pretty Woman, there is a wealthy bachelor, with a history of failed affairs, who hires a hooker to escort him for a week and ends up falling in love with her. In this story, the fairy godmother turns out to be the hotel manager who is primarily concerned with keeping a good look for prospective clients.
In both stories, we see this reoccurring concept of a rags to riches love, which is why both stories are highly favored. However, realistically the chances of this happening are very slim for multiple reasons. For one, people of different classes don't really mingle in the same area so it would be really hard for two people of different class to interact for a long enough period of time for them to consider dating. Even if they did hook-up, they would eventually run into the next major obstacle, which would be that society would not allow a relationship like that to foster. Marriage nowadays is viewed as a business arrangement, therefore most people are in higher economical classes would not indulge in a relationship with those of lower classes because it would only bring further harm their business. Aside from marriage, I do think the rags to riches story line is achievable but merely based off of hard work and networking amongst the right people but I would not suggest banking on falling in love with someone rich.
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