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    Oscar Wilde's short story "The Model Millionaire" tells the tale of Hughie Erskine, a poor but handsome young man in love with Laura Merton. However, romance is only for the wealthy. The story features Baron Hausberg, an eccentric millionaire who enjoys posing as a beggar for artists to paint. He turns out to be not just a wealthy patron of the arts but also a kind man, rewarding Hughie's generosity by gifting him money that allows him to marry Laura. The millionaire proves to be both rich and humble, serving as an "ideal millionaire" and bringing the unlikely love story to a happy conclusion.

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    Oscar Wilde's short story "The Model Millionaire" tells the tale of Hughie Erskine, a poor but handsome young man in love with Laura Merton. However, romance is only for the wealthy. The story features Baron Hausberg, an eccentric millionaire who enjoys posing as a beggar for artists to paint. He turns out to be not just a wealthy patron of the arts but also a kind man, rewarding Hughie's generosity by gifting him money that allows him to marry Laura. The millionaire proves to be both rich and humble, serving as an "ideal millionaire" and bringing the unlikely love story to a happy conclusion.

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    Oscar Wilde's short story "The Model Millionaire" tells the tale of Hughie Erskine, a poor but handsome young man in love with Laura Merton. However, romance is only for the wealthy. The story features Baron Hausberg, an eccentric millionaire who enjoys posing as a beggar for artists to paint. He turns out to be not just a wealthy patron of the arts but also a kind man, rewarding Hughie's generosity by gifting him money that allows him to marry Laura. The millionaire proves to be both rich and humble, serving as an "ideal millionaire" and bringing the unlikely love story to a happy conclusion.

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    Oscar Wilde's short story "The Model Millionaire" tells the tale of Hughie Erskine, a poor but handsome young man in love with Laura Merton. However, romance is only for the wealthy. The story features Baron Hausberg, an eccentric millionaire who enjoys posing as a beggar for artists to paint. He turns out to be not just a wealthy patron of the arts but also a kind man, rewarding Hughie's generosity by gifting him money that allows him to marry Laura. The millionaire proves to be both rich and humble, serving as an "ideal millionaire" and bringing the unlikely love story to a happy conclusion.

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    The Model Millionaire

    About the Author- Oscar Wilde


    • Oscar Wilde (1856 – 1900) was a gifted and versatile Irish dramatist,
    poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer of the Victorian era.
    • He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Magdalen College,
    Oxford. While at Oxford he came under the influence of Walter
    Pater and soon gained a reputation as one of the founders of the
    aesthetic cult which gave the doctrine of art for art’s sake.
    • He was a brilliant conversationalist and one of the wittiest men of
    his time.
    • His well-known works are – The Happy Prince and other Tales, A
    Woman of No Importance, The Importance of being Earnest, Ballad
    of Reading Gaol and An Ideal Husband. His novel The Picture of
    Dorian Gray has been filmed.
    About the Story
    • The writer conveys bitter realities of
    human life through this story. First,
    unless one is wealthy, there is no use
    of being handsome. Romance is
    meant for the rich, not for the poor.
    The poor should be practical in their
    way of life. Secondly, it would be an
    ideal situation if one is both rich and
    humble as majority of the rich are
    proud and inhuman.
    • These two great truths of the modern
    life apply on the two main characters
    in this story- Hughie Erskine, a
    handsome young boy with crisp
    brown hair and grey eyes but with no
    profession. He is in love with Laura
    Merton. Baron Hausberg, a millionaire
    model who is also a model or ideal
    millionaire.
    Baron Hausberg
    • The millionaire model: Baron • The model millionaire: The
    Hausberg is a rich eccentric man. miserable beggar turns out to be a
    He delights in getting himself millionaire. Alan Trevor remarks,
    “millionaire models are rare
    painted as a beggar. As a beggar
    enough but, by Jove, model
    he becomes an amazing model. millionaires are rarer still”. This
    He is a wizened old man, with a remark is true as rich men are
    face like wrinkled parchment, usually men of the world and very
    and a most piteous expression. snobbish. They do not care about
    • He is wearing thick patched art and do not think about the
    boots and is carrying a battered poor. Baron Hausberg is an ideal
    hat for alms. He is a rare model millionaire as he is a patron of
    arts. Baron proves himself to be a
    but Hughie feels pity for the
    model millionaire by rewarding
    miserable beggar. He is a the young man’s ‘extravagant
    millionaire model and the artist generosity’ with a handsome gift
    Alan Trevor calls him a living of 10,000 pounds to enable
    Velasquez, an etching Rembrandt Hughie to marry Laura.
    and a rare discovery.
    A fairy tale ending
    • The rich man’s kindness brings the
    two lovers-Hughie Erskine and Laura
    Merton together. The union that
    would have been impossible without
    Baron Hausberg’s help. He decides to
    reward Hughie for his generosity. He
    sends a sealed envelope containing a
    cheque worth ten thousand pounds
    to Hughie. It is the exact amount he
    needs to fulfill the condition laid
    down by Laura’s father. He writes on
    the envelope- “A wedding present to
    Hughie and Laura, from an old
    beggar”. He attends the wedding and
    also delivers a speech on his wedding.
    The wedding present is earned by
    Hughie because of his generosity.

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