Winthorpe And Valentine Analysis

Philadelphia based Louis Winthorpe III was born into and has solely lived a life of privilege . He went to Harvard and graduated, he is very successful at his job, he has a gorgeous home paid for by his employer. By him having this he is well of and is wealthy. The children he will possibly have with his fiancée Penelope will most likely also know nothing but privilege and will life the life not knowing what struggling with money or anything. He and his friends, who all have similar backgrounds, are snobbish and rude. His job is the managing director at Duke & Duke a commodities brokerage house owned by brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke. The Duke brothers often disagree and argue with each other and make bets and bids on the outcome of these disagreements. Bidding on their disagreements also proves …show more content…
After the outcome of the Dukes' experiment, can either Winthorpe or Valentine change the course of the new life set out for them by the Dukes, even if they know what the Dukes are doing. The experiences will fundamentally and change the lives of both Winthorpe and Valentine, but not without the expense of others as well. When Winthorpe runs into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him and trying to take his stuff, he has him arrested and taken away. Before seeing how different the two men were, the brothers decide to make a decision as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is he is discarded by everyone he knows if he was given Winthorpe's job. They proceeded to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a embarrassing position in front of his girlfriend. He only has the hooker to rely on and she was hired to ruin him. Winthorpe has had Valentine arrested for stealing his briefcase. It's an unfair charge and Valentine is innocent, but Valentine is black and had the misfortune to bump into Winthorpe is front of a