영어로 읽는 고전 _ 엘리너 H. 포터의 오! 머니! 머니!
"오, 돈! 돈!"은 엘리너 H. 포터가 20세기 초에 쓴 소설입니다. 이야기는 주로 부유하지만 내성적인 백만장자 스탠리 G. 풀턴을 중심으로 전개되며, 그는 자신의 막대한 재산의 유산과 의미에 대해 고민합니다. 자신이 세상을 떠난 후 유산이 어떻게 관리될지에 대한 우려에 사로잡힌 풀턴은 존 스미스라는 가명으로 자신을 위장하여 동부에 있는 먼 친척들이 예상치 못한 부를 어떻게 다루는지 관찰하는 계획을 세웁니다.
이 매혹적인 이야기의 시작에서, 우리는 변호사 사무실에서 풀턴을 만나게 되는데, 그는 자신의 돈이 맞이할 잠재적 운명에 대해 고민하고 있으며 진정한 동정심이 부족하다고 느끼는 조직화된 자선 단체에 대한 회의적인 태도를 표현합니다. 유산을 낭비한, 젊은 남성을 만난 후 영감을 받은 풀턴은 자신의 세 명의 사촌들에게 익명으로 상당한 금액을 제공하여 그들의 성격과 재산 관리 능력을 평가하는 계획을 고안합니다.
첫 장들은 돈, 도덕, 그리고 가족에 대한 주제를 탐구하는 사회적 논평이 풍부한 서사를 위한 무대를 교묘하게 설정하며, 수수한 재봉사인 플로라와 힘겨운 식료품점 주인인 제임스 블레이스델을 포함한 독특한 친척들의 등장인물들을 소개합니다. 풀턴의 여정은 자신의 가치관뿐만 아니라 부와 책임에 관련된 인간 본성의 복잡함에 대해서도 생각해보게 하는 내용을 담고 있습니다.
Classics Read in English _ Oh, Money! Money! A Novel by Eleanor H. Porter
"Oh, Money! Money!" by Eleanor H. Porter is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves primarily around Stanley G. Fulton, a wealthy yet introspective millionaire who grapples with the legacy and implications of his vast fortune. Haunted by concerns over how his inheritance will be managed after his passing, Fulton hatches a plan to disguise himself under the alias John Smith to observe how his distant relatives back East contend with unexpected wealth.
At the start of this captivating tale, we meet Fulton in the office of his lawyer, contemplating the potential fate of his money and expressing skepticism about organized charity, which he feels lacks genuine compassion. Inspired after encountering a young man who squandered his inheritance, Fulton devises a scheme to anonymously provide his three cousins with significant financial sums to assess their character and capability of handling wealth.
The opening chapters artfully set the stage for a narrative rich with social commentary, exploring themes of money, morality, and family, while introducing a cast of quirky relatives, including Flora, a modest dressmaker, and James Blaisdell, a struggling grocery store owner. Fulton's journey promises to reflect not only on his own values but also on the intrigues of human nature in relation to wealth and responsibility.
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There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars. He was a tall, spare man, with a fringe of reddish-brown hair encircling a bald spot. His blue eyes, fixed just now in a steady gaze upon a row of ponderous law books across the room, were friendly and benevolent in direct contradiction to the bulldog, never-let-go fighting qualities of the square jaw below the firm, rather thin lips.
The lawyer, a youthfully alert man of sixty years, trimly gray as to garb, hair, and mustache, sat idly watching him, yet with eyes that looked so intently that they seemed to listen.
For fully five minutes the two men had been pulling at their cigars in silence when the millionaire spoke.
“Ned, what am I going to do with my money?”
Into the lawyer’s listening eyes flashed, for a moment, the keenly scrutinizing glance usually reserved for the witness on the other side. Then quietly came the answer.
“Spend it yourself, I hope?for some years to come, Stanley.”
Mr. Stanley G. Fulton was guilty of a shrug and an uplifted eyebrow.
