Wollstonecraft even pokes fun at readers who expect the book to conform to their romantic expectations and desires:

The me's, you's and we's in their ballads attach to well-heeled Hollywood dreamers with romantic expectations loftier than Everest.

In addition, many of the girls are able to fawn over him in a childish sense without any romantic expectations from the reader.

I never downscaled my romantic expectations.

I never axed my romantic expectations.

A June-November pairing that flouts every traditional romantic expectation ends up seeming totally natural.

Filled with "romantic expectation of persons and the nation," the work recalled "the deflating optimism of Mark Twain," she said.

Finding the reality different than her romantic expectations, Madeleine feels very uncomfortable with his parents and so their stay with them is short.

His head full of romantic expectations, he envisioned the swashbuckling life he would lead, the marvelous fighting techniques he would learn.

Though fate finally does contrive to deliver Imogene into his life, the long-awaited meeting fails, quite dismally, to live up to the narrator's romantic expectations.