Free Essays on The Model Millionaire. Millionaire Culture American Millionaire Culture Many people think of Brangelina, Gene Simmons, the heiress Paris Hilton when they think of American wealth. However, these are not the typical millionaires of our culture they only represent a small portion of American wealth.
When Hughie came, Alan was painting a model. The model was a beggar-man. Hughie felt sorry for the model, so he gave him a sovereign. Later that night, Hughie met Alan at Palette Club. They had a talk. Hughie found out from Alan that the model was actually not a beggar-man, but a millionaire, named Baron Hausberg.
Inside the letter was a check for ten thousand pounds, a wedding present from Baron Hausberg. At the wedding, Alan was the best man and Baron Hausberg also attended the wedding and gives a speech at the wedding breakfast. Alan’s speech closes the story with, “Millionaire models are rare enough, but model millionaires are rarer still!”.
Oscar Wilde did not invent Aestheticism, but he was a dramatic leader in promoting the movement near the end of the nineteenth century. Wilde was especially influenced as a college student by the works of the English poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne and the American writer Edgar Allan Poe.