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TV Tropes Org Blithe Spirit Is it a crime to start each day With
a laugh and a smile and a song? And is it a crime to end each
day With a laugh and a smile and a song? Is it wrong? Ella,
Bells Are Ringing, "Is It A Crime?"  A blithe spirit is a free-
spirited Fish out of Water who goes to strait-laced land and
shakes things up there despite the insistence of everyone else
that the way things are can't possibly be changed.  Common
variants of this character include:  Not to be confused with the
Noel Coward play or the classic film of the same name (both of
whose titles derive from Shelley's 'Hail to thee, blithe
spirit'). Interestingly, there's a famous quote by Matthew
Arnold about Shelley's hopeless attempts to be a blithe spirit
to the world himself: a "beautiful and ineffectual angel,
beating in the void his luminous wings in vain"  The Complainer
Is Always Wrong is an inverse of this trope. Manic Pixie Dream
Girl is a subtrope that serves as