'''Basic Trope''': A StockCharacter who embodies [[WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons negative stereotypes of working-class or poor people]].
* '''Straight''': Alice lives in a tough neighborhood with her boyfriend Bob. She dresses in impressive-sounding fake labels (and her outfits tend to [[{{Stripperific}} leave little to the imagination]]). She has a fake tan, and opted not to go to college (and may not have even graduated high school). Bob bought her a knock-off purse that allegedly FellOffTheBackOfATruck.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice lives with Bob, her [[GirlOfTheWeek boyfriend of the month]], and already has five illegitimate children by the age of 23, [[ReallyGetsAround by five different men]], and has been on a PointAndLaughShow in an attempt to determine the paternity of at least one of them. She is unemployed, instead living on welfare checks, child support, and mooching off her current boyfriend (and spending the majority of that money on things like fake designer clothes and/or [[DrugsAreBad recreational drugs]], though she is also notorious for her "visits" to older relatives that are little more than an opportunity to rifle through their medicine cabinets). And she dropped out of high school (maybe as a result of her first TeenPregnancy, maybe for another reason). Her lack of education is very evident in the way she speaks, [[JerkAss her personality is incredibly abrasive]] and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain even racist]] and she is notorious for starting fistfights with other women over petty and trivial matters, [[DomesticAbuse getting into almost nightly screaming matches with her current boyfriend or one of her babydaddies]] that usually spills out onto the porch or sidewalk (or the street), and/or filing {{Frivolous Lawsuit}}s.
** Working-class people are AlwaysChaoticEvil.
** Any blue-collar job is a VillainByDefault occupation.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Alice has picked up a few bad habits and norms from living in a tough neighborhood. There's little or nothing some effort (and maybe moving) couldn't cure, though.
** Alice is a bit rough around the edges and has a few eccentricities, but overall is an honest, hardworking person.
** Alice is a [[WorkingClassHero working-class heroine]] who is also a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
* '''Justified''': Life's nasty for Alice. The result isn't nice.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice is poor, but she is articulate in her speech and well-educated. She might even be an AlmightyJanitor type.
** WorkingClassHero
** UpperClassTwit
** WickedCultured
** TheUpperCrass and AristocratsAreEvil
** Alice is RichInDollarsPoorInSense.
** [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Alice is a rich and fashionable woman]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing whose classy demeanour hides a sociopath.]]
* '''Subverted''':
** Alice lives in a rough neighborhood with her boyfriend, but the two of them are [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream working hard to better themselves and better their lives]]. They may not be receiving any kind of public assistance, but if they are, they aren't abusing it or trying to get more of it than they need (in fact, they might possibly feel ashamed of needing assistance to get by, DependingOnTheWriter).
** Alice likes to wear designer tracksuits and had her first child at age 17, but she is an intelligent and likeable person.
** Although Alice lives in a trailer home or a shabby apartment, her place is well-kept and she always pays the rent on time.
** Alice lives amidst deprivation, but she is a middle-class or rich girl SlummingIt and her family can bail her out when she gets into real danger or just tired of this charade.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** In order to move up, they rely on a GetRichQuickScheme, which may be illegal.
** In the sense that she is street-smart; she's BookDumb.
** Her family cuts her off and her own life regresses to the mean of her milieu in short order.
* '''Parodied''': Alice was a well-cared-for girl who just [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope started acting this way after her family had a]] BrokeEpisode [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope when she was fourteen]].
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
** Characters of many socioeconomic descriptions occupy all positions on the spectra of intelligence and manners.
** Alice is a poor young woman, but she's well-mannered and hard-working on good days. But good days are few and far between for her; the rest of the time, she's totally out of it, and most days she wakes up naked, hungover, and [[{{Squick}} with an unexplained new scar]] in the gutter.
** Alice gets TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how her poor circumstances are more her fault than any other person's, event's, or thing's. Chastened, she works hard to improve her behaviour; but when she doesn't get a better opportunity despite her improvement, she regresses to her prior loutishness. Then she gets called out again and tries to better herself again.
* '''Averted''': See "Inverted" and "Subverted".
* '''Enforced''':
** [[AuthorTract "Let's discuss what's wrong with modern society!"]]
** "We need a LoserProtagonist."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Sure, life's been bad to you, but you need to StopBeingStereotypical, too, girl!"
* '''Invoked''':
** [[NaiveEverygirl Alice]] becomes pregnant at age 16 and her [[TheFundamentalist ultra-religious parents]] [[HonorBeforeReason kick her out of the house]]. She qualifies for government assistance, and so gets a place to live downtown (but it's not in a very nice area). She finds she has no time to finish school, between taking care of her baby and [[BurgerFool working at the local burger joint]], so education or other self-improvement takes a back seat (and because of her young age, she may be lacking in the emotional maturity needed to set her priorities straight).
** In school, Alice falls in with poor kids Adam, Betty, and Bob. [[SlobsVersusSnobs They figure she thinks she's better than they are because she's middle-class or higher]], so she makes a point of emulating them to show she isn't that bad, and before too long she's [[BecomingTheMask become what she pretended to be]].
* '''Exploited''':
** A popular politician finds out about Alice. Depending on their attitude towards poor people, they may use her as a cautionary tale about what can happen if you don't finish school, an iron-clad excuse to abolish social assistance or at least curtail it sharply, or a person who simply needs opportunities to find out what useful skills she has.
** Alice becomes TheScapegoat for her [[TheSociopath sociopathic criminal]] [[WithFriendsLikeThese friends]] who pin their crimes on her.
* '''Defied''': Alice either gets a GED or finds a way to complete HighSchool and at least go to community college or trade school (maybe even four-year college), and works hard to make a better life for herself and her child (see "Subverted"). She puts her child's interests and long-term well-being ahead of short-term pleasure for herself.
* '''Discussed''': "I went to high school with Alice and looked her up on Website/{{Facebook}} to see how she was doing. Looks like she has three different kids from three different dads and won't stop trying to get people involved with multi-level marketing schemes when she isn't starting petty drama with other people and making vaguely threatening posts aimed at unknown parties."
* '''Conversed''': "My sister hit me up for money. Again." "Alice? Oh, God, what's her sob story this time?" "She and Bob are ''allegedly'' waiting on both a settlement check and a disability claim but ran into a few problems with their landlord." "Damn, they sure do have a lot of unreasonable landlords and always seem to be either suing someone or waiting for a disability claim to go through." "Tell me about it. I'm like one of three people in the family who they still try this with because everyone else has told them to [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] themselves or gone no-contact with them after one too many requests for money, and those are the people who didn't sever after they stole twelve grand from Grandpa when he was recovering from heart surgery and not in his right mind."
* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice is a StrawLoser.
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice lives a dead-end life based around milking everything and everyone for whatever she can get out of them (often via scheming and stealing) because it's all she knows and, frankly, her only really viable option. [[GenerationXerox Her family has a well-ingrained tradition of generational welfare]]: her mother had her when she was nineteen to a father who {{disappeared|Dad}} the minute he learned she was pregnant and never had anything to collect anyway due to his numerous stints in jail and refusal to work a job that was on the books, and she herself got knocked up at seventeen to another useless loser who, like her father, alternated between stints in jail and working cash-in-hand to avoid garnishments. With a child and no reliable transportation, employment is difficult to acquire and keep, and while the local community college has a daycare, it is almost an hour away each way, and she simply has no way of getting there, which leads to her having no marketable skills that would allow her to get a decent job. As a result, she simply gave up trying, applied for every benefit she thought she had a shot at getting, and lives a life of general deprivation and cheap pleasures (plus whatever she can wring out of boyfriends).
* '''Played for Horror''':
** Alice's extreme poverty gives her and the people who meet her vivid and intense nightmares.
** Whenever Alice is presented with a HopeSpot that can get her out of her quagmire, [[HopeIsScary she trembles in fear]].
** Alice is one murder away from snapping and becoming an example of the HillbillyHorrors trope. And that murder is going to happen soon, one way or another…
* '''Deconstructed''': Being so poor and such a punching bag to everybody else has harmful effects on Alice's mental and physical health.
* '''Reconstructed''': She gets so used to having such a crumby life that her cheap pleasures come to seem WorthIt to her, and may later become so, too, depending on how much stock she puts in "fake it 'til you make it".
* '''Implied''': Alice is TheGhost, but Bob goes to what he knows to be her residence and sees all the telltale signs and mementos of poor people who StoppedCaring a long time ago, if they ever cared.
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