This book sort of reminds me a little of 500 Days of Summer. The movie is often prided for being a fantastic love story. The male main character, Tom, loves Summer and wants a relationship with her. When she expresses that she doesn't want this, suddenly she's the bad guy for making him still want her. Tom, like the Good Boy, are both selfish. They want her, no matter what.
At the very same time, Summer, like the Bad Girl, is also selfish. By stringing the men along and giving them mixed signals, they're equally to blame. I don't think either of them can handle the relationship in The Bad Girl because I'm not even really sure if they know what they want from it. They're two different people considering she wants adventure and something new all the time, which is why she goes from man to man and from place to place. It seems he wants to be settled. He doesn't want to take chances. In order for them to have made anything work, one would have to change for the other. As we've seen over and over again with our other readings, that's not a good thing. If one had changed for the other, and it would have to be a drastic personality change, then no one would really be happy. They'll still constantly desire what they've lost be it the personality they changed, or the one they didn't really get to have.
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