Knowing rich families and introducing your kids to them does not an arranged marriage make.
True...but I just cannot see either Watson or Elizabeth purposefully seeking out rich people to introduce their kids to in the hopes that they'd fall in love with that wealthy person and marry for their money.
That's so cheap and tacky, especially in this day and age in the twenty-first century and Watson and Elizabeth just do not strike me as those sort of tacky parents.
I can see that happening, perhaps with Watson/Kristy and Shannon.
Maybe Shannon would become wealthy on her own, then marry somebody equally wealthy...perhaps they'd both work on Wall Street or be world diplomats and bond over investments and international relations.
Kristy, I see her definitely wanting to self-employed, own at least two businesses, if not several businesses, make millions off those,
then marry.
No way would Watson be tacky enough to be introducing wealthy men to Kristy in some scheme to "get" her to fall in love with any of them.
Kristy would be too sharp for that sort of scheme and is way too independent...she'd be creating her own set of connections by the time she reached the university, which, like Mary Anne, would likely be in NYC.
That sort of thing would happen in Sweet Valley, rarely progressive Stoneybrook.
Kristy is likely to meet a fellow entreprenuer on her own, maybe a restaurant owner in NYC or Minneapolis or Chicago, they'd bond over international business deals and wind up marrying, then having a huge family.
I can even see Kristy helping her potential husband secure international deals...a deal with a place like Sweden and Taiwan would provide a sort of cushion of protection during the pandemic since Sweden and Taiwan never closed down its restaurants during the worst of the 2020 outbreaks.
I can definitely see Kristy having a huge multi-million-dollar international business and having a huge family...she has that sort of energy.
I definitely see Stacey wanting to marry someone successful and wealthy, like her father. It doesn't make her a bad person.
No...it doesn't. But Stacey would not not be the sort of person to seek out a husband for his wealth.
Stacey is not
Lila Fowler,
Suzanne Hanlon or Jessica Wakefield.
Either way, Stacey might not even marry or if she does marry, it would be far later than most of the others...maybe when she's thirty or so.
I suspect she'd be very busy pursuing her doctorate degree and probably a PhD to do much dating in her twenties anyway.
And if she finally did marry, she'd be making a great income on her own like Kristy, at least a six-figure income, so wealth in a potential husband would be very low on her list.
If she wanted to marry, she would seek out a husband who was her intellectual level, though, so she would likely wind up with a fellow engineer or accountant or even a creative artist whom she can chat creative innovations and inventions with. 😊😊😊😊
I have no idea what kinds of connections Logan's folks would have. They seemed like simple people.
Funny, to me, the Brunos
don't seem that "simple" to me.
In
Mary Anne to the Rescue, Lyman Bruno wanted to send his son to an expensive boarding school so he could meet the "right" kind of kids.
It seems to me as if Lyman had wealthy connections and was scheming even when Logan was as young as thirteen to manipulate Logan into meeting other wealthy people.
And when Dawn suggests that Logan sit down and talk to his parents about his unhappiness with Lyman's scheme, Logan tells her,
It's not like that in my family.
It also seems to me reading about the Brunos that...unlike most other Stoneybrook families, the dad is the "ruler of the roost" sort of dad.
Logan hints that his mum pretty much follows along with what his dad wants and isn't very independent-minded.
Mary Anne, used to her democratic, free family, is rather shocked at the idea of a dad who completely disregards his kids' feelings and who just makes life-altering decisions about the kids' lives without consulting them.
When she and Logan are shopping at Washington Mall, Mary Anne weeps quietly as she mulls over how different the Brunos seem than most of the families she knows.
It seems to me that the Brunos are not such a simple, down-to-Earth family...in fact, compared to the Brunos, the Schafer-Spiers, even the city-bred McGills and even the wealthy Thomas-Brewers seem far more down-to-Earth and more free than the Bruno family.
The Brunos seemed to be one exception in Stoneybrook of open, progressive and down-to-Earth families.
I can totally see Lyman Bruno steering his son into either working under him or "setting" him up with a wealthy "friend" who maybe owes him a "favor," then introducing Logan to "high-class" women a few years afterward.
Also...let's not forget the racist, backwards Lowells...the BSC members are very shocked by them and their manipulation of their kids' minds and lives and the way the Lowell parents engineer their kids into only associating with other white, wealthy kids.
This sort of social manipulation and scheming is alien to the regular BSC members and they cannot imagine any of their parents resorting to such controlling tactics.