All varieties of the romance contain the pattern of "heroine gets rich through love."
For the past 200 years, this narrative has been instrumental in the formation of desire in women readers in first-world countries. In this paper I first trace connections between the popularity of romance fiction and patriarchal capitalism, or the "Cinderella Complex," and secondly I discuss a novel which represents and critiques the continued presence of romance fiction in our culture: Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. (103)