Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Brewsters Millionen
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Readers who enjoy comic plots built on one outrageous rule, romantic comedy, glittering settings from New York to the Mediterranean, and a hero who must find new ways to waste money.
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Brewster's Millions is a comic novel by the American writer George Barr McCutcheon, published in 1902. It asks a question that sounds like a joke: how hard can it be to spend a fortune? Montgomery Brewster, a young New York banker's grandson, is about to find out, and the answer drives a story full of dinners, yachts, telegrams and near disasters.
Monty is twenty-five when his grandfather dies and leaves him one million dollars. Within days a lawyer's letter brings news of a second fortune, almost seven million dollars, left by an uncle. The catch is strict. Monty must be penniless on his twenty-sixth birthday, own nothing from his grandfather, and prove he got his money's worth. He may not tell a soul why he is spending so wildly.
What you get here is the whole shape of that year, from the first dinner to the last anxious week, with the people who help and hinder him. We begin on the night of a birthday party, when a footman keeps ringing a doorbell with news that changes everything.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A birthday dinner ends with a deathFree
- 2A million arrives and a stranger's will follows
- 3The rules of a strange game
- 4Spending proves harder than it looks
- 5Two women and a banker's request
- 6Illness, a ball, and a friend's confession
- 7Aboard the Flitter the spending goes global
- 8A sheik, a mutiny, and a broken shaft
- 9What the story is about and how it is told
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A birthday dinner ends with a death
The story opens in the studio of the painter Paul Pettingill, where ten young men called the Little Sons of the Rich are celebrating the twenty-fifth birthday of Montgomery Brewster. Monty is tall, easygoing and well liked. He is the only grandson of Edwin Peter Brewster, a banker with many millions, and everyone expects him to inherit.
Monty's parents ran off together for love, and the old man never forgave them. When they died, he took the boy in, but the house was cold, and Monty chose to live on his bank salary in rooms at Mrs. Gray's on Fortieth Street. So he arrives at the party as a hardworking clerk with fine prospects and little cash.
The feast is interrupted by the ring of an electric bell. A servant named Ellis, from the grandfather's house, wants a word with Monty. The young men tease him about being sent for like a baby, and Monty sends Ellis away twice, once with a rude message.
At three in the morning Ellis comes back, firm and polite. He has three messages, delivered in order. The first is a check for one thousand dollars from the old man. The second says Mr. Brewster has been struck by a sudden heart attack. The third is the shortest.
The scene is a small comic piece that turns sharply serious. It sets up the two things the whole book depends on, which are Monty's easy good nature and the way money arrives in his life through other people's deaths and wills. It also gives us the Little Sons, who will return at the very end of the year.
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Questions about Brewsters Millionen
What is Brewster's Millions about?
It is about Monty Brewster, who inherits one million dollars and learns he will receive seven million more if he spends the first million within a year and owns nothing at the end. The rules are strict, and he cannot explain them.
Who is Swearengen Jones?
Jones is a rich Montana rancher and the executor of James Sedgwick's will. He sets the rules Monty must follow, judges his conduct, and communicates mostly by short, funny telegrams that are among the book's best jokes.
Why must Monty spend the money?
His uncle James Sedgwick hated Monty's grandfather and refused to let any of the old man's money mix with his own. So he ordered Monty to be penniless on his twenty-sixth birthday before the seven million could pass to him.
When was Brewster's Millions written?
George Barr McCutcheon published it in 1902. It is a work of fiction, a comic romance with an American setting, and it has been filmed and staged many times since.
Is Brewster's Millions easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that it moves briskly. Chapters are short, most scenes are built from lively dialogue, and every chapter has a clear goal, which makes it easy to follow and enjoyable to hear.