Love Triangle

No matter how often readers complain about them, books with DLTs continue to fly off the shelves, in both YA and adult romance. That DLTs divide opinion, in spite of high sales, is also obvious. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the DLT trope is something authors often employ: But what is a DLT? Does it take more than one form? What makes a love triangle for want of a better word triangle-y? Apparently, DLTs tend to share common themes of you guessed it unrequited love, confused emotions, and jealousy.

Although you can have a DLT featuring three people of the same gender, usually the trope involves one woman and two men. Quite often, a woman is torn between two suitors of contrasting personality Good Boy vs Bad Boy — sound familiar? But why are they so goshdarn popular as a trope in YA? Apparently, when Bella arrived in Forks, she started more than just a brawl between a vampire and a werewolf — Twilight was the single most-often-referenced work that people utilised for examples when discussing DLTs.

But hold it right there — was it really Twilight that did all this damage? How long have DLTs been around? If you want to do an exhaustive search, be my guest, but even my cursory examination of the issue uncovered DLTs in everything from Shakespeare to Ishiguro. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, submissions or preferences.

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The most downer of endings. Somewhere along the way in pursuing Person A, Persons B and C realize that who they really want is each other.

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This particular scenario has two main sub-categories. The second major category of illusionary triangle is that in which Person A struggles with their dueling feelings for Persons B and C, only to realize that B and C are actually one and the same.

There are also plenty of other less common subtypes of this trope see: Person A chooses Person B.