A typical bourgeois miser
(1) Eat: He never sells meat, vegetables and fruits, but the tenants send them to the woodshed.
(2) Wear: Wear the same clothes all year round.
(3) Living: The dark old house in Grandet has been in disrepair for a long time, and the stairs and steps were damaged by insects, and the maid almost fell down. He also blamed her for not choosing a solid place to stay.
(4) Use: Save everything for him, including actions. Every meal of food, every day of candles, he always personally quantitative distribution; Every year 1 1 a room is lit at the beginning of the month, and it will be closed on March 3 1, regardless of whether it is cold in spring and autumn.
(5) For his family: his pocket money to his wife does not exceed 6 francs at a time; For many years, the total amount of his daughter's dowry was only five or six hundred francs; My daughter is 23 years old, and Grandet never thought about kissing her.
(6) For servants: servant Nanong only earns 60 francs a year. She worked hard at Grandet's house for 30 years. It was not until the 20th year that Grandet made up her mind to give her an old watch, which was the only gift she got.
(7) For frequent family visitors. There are two families and six people frequenting Grandet's house: Luo Xu family (notary, priest, Robert Hormus, their nephew, Te Peng Feng) and Gresham family (Gresham and their son Adolf). The two families came to Grandet's home for Grandet's only daughter, Eugénie. All this, the wily Grandet can see from his eyes. He knew that they were fighting for money and compensation for his daughter. So he played along and used his daughter as bait to "fish" in order to benefit both sides.
(8) Being sick to his wife: It costs money to treat a disease. Grandet thinks this is simply "committing suicide." But he thinks that spending a few medical expenses will save a bigger fortune-this transaction is worthwhile. He invited the most famous doctor in Sodom to treat his wife, and asked with trepidation, "Do you want to spend a lot of money? Do you want to take medicine? " Finally, I gnashed my teeth and said, "Please help her, even if it costs me one or two hundred francs."
(9) Broke brother and nephew: I am extremely annoyed with this nephew who went to his place because of his father's bankruptcy. I want to send him to India, but I am indifferent to his grief, and I am even more dissatisfied with Eugénie's warm hospitality. Dai Xiao refused to spend a penny. Taking advantage of the attempts of Uncle Luo Xu, a notary public, and De Gresham, a banker, let Gresham go to Paris to deal with his brother's bankruptcy. With Grandet's reputation and Gracin's bank account number, the creditors kept the bonds. Grandet sold his brother's property and paid off 47% of his debts. He put off the remaining debts for five years on the pretext that his nephew would pay them all.
(10) Grab the dressing box: Grandet, who is over 76 years old, saw her daughter playing with the gold dressing box and "jumped on the dressing box like a tiger on a sleeping child." It was not until I saw my wife was dizzy that I gave up the gold cosmetic box and tried my best to please her. Because if you are angry with your wife, your daughter will inherit her inheritance, because it is not worth losing too much.
(1 1) Deceiving the right of inheritance: "She thought she was wrong about her father's heart because he was so gentle and considerate to her: he helped her eat lunch and looked at her for hours, with almost kind eyes; He looked at his daughter as if she were made of gold. " Grandet is kind to her because in her father's eyes, she has a large inheritance. Her father doesn't really like her, but likes gold.
(12) Dying robber: "The priest put the gilded cross to his lips and kissed the icon of Christ, but made a terrible gesture to hold the cross in his hand. This last effort cost him his life." In do or die, Grandet never let go of his greed for gold and reached for the gilded cross.