Apr 11, 2022 · A medical intern and fiancee of Angela Wexler, he helps Chris get the medicine he needs. Barney Northrup He is the realtor for Sunset Towers. Julian Eastman He is the current …
Samuel W. Westing. Sam Westing, the son of immigrants who was born as Samuel “Windy” Windkloppel, is the eccentric and reclusive owner and operator of the Westing Paper Products …
While theWesting Game is full of twists and turns, it is revealed that the culprit was none other than Westing’s attorney, Sydney Bartlett! Bartlett killed Westing to inherit his fortune and …
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Jake Wexler | podiatrist and bookie |
Angela Wexler | looked like Violet Westing/the bomber/engaged to Denton Deere |
Shin Hoo | owns restaurant on top floor of Sunset Towers/partner to Grace Wexler |
Grace Windser Wexler | related to Sam Westing/wife of Jake Wexler/interior designer |
From the text: He didn’t want to accuse anybody, not Judge Ford (apartment 4D), not Otis (grain) Amber, not the limper (just about everybody limped...
Dr. Wexler “Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation.” “An emergency Packers game in Green Bay,” Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach, who...
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About The Westing Game The Westing Game Summary Character List Glossary Themes Quotes and Analysis Chapter 1 (Sunset Towers) - Chapter 7 (The Westing Game) Chapter 8 (The Paired Heirs) - Chapter 10 (The Westing Game) Chapter 11 (The Meeting) - Chapter 15 (Fact and Gossip) Chapter 16 (The Third Bomb) - Chapter 21 (The Fourth Bomb) Chapter 22 (Losers, Winners) - Chapter 30 (The End?) Symbols, Allegory and Motifs Metaphors and Similes Irony Imagery The Westing Game Film Adaptation "Get A Clue" and Theatre Adaptation Literary Elements Related Links Essay Questions Quiz 1 Quiz 2 Quiz 3 Quiz 4 Citations.
A smart young girl with a talent for the stock market, she has a long braid and kicks people in the shins. She solves the Westing game.
Turtle's beautiful older sister, she's engaged to Denton Deere. However, she is unhappy that most decisions are made for her.
She is Turtle and Angela's overbearing mother. An amateur decorator, she spends most of her time preening over her daughter Angela's upcoming nuptials.
He is the owner of Hoo's restaurant on the top floor of Sunset Towers. He is generally cranky and very competitive. He sued Sam Westing for stealing his invention of the paper diaper.
Mr. Hoo's second wife from China, she speaks very little English and only desires to return home, even if it means stealing.
A single dressmaker, she becomes a mother figure to her partner Turtle and it is revealed she lost her daughter years ago.
The The Westing Game quotes below are all either spoken by Samuel W. Westing or refer to Samuel W. Westing. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ).
The timeline below shows where the character Samuel W. Westing appears in The Westing Game. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The heirs gather in the Westing game room with the lawyer, Ed Plum. They sit at tables with their partners, where an envelope holding another check for $10,000 waits for each pair. Plum begins to read from the will. He welcomes the heirs and asks each to give one answer. Jake and Madame Hoo say, “Boom,” while Flora and Turtle provide the amount of money they earned on the stock market, and Chris and Dr. Deere answer that Westing was a good man. Judge Ford and Sandy give no answer, and Judge Ford gets a note from Dr. Deere telling her that Otis has not had plastic surgery and thus could not be Westing. Grace and Mr. Hoo say “Ed Plum,” Crow and Otis say “Mother,” and Theo is about to accuse Otis but thinks of the soup kitchen and gives no answer. Sydelle sings “America, the Beautiful” and then names Otis for her team’s answer. Crow gets snacks. Dr. Deere tells Judge Ford that no one has had plastic surgery but Sandy could have used some. Theo, who has resumed the chess game, believes he has won. Plum opens the next envelope, which directs them to the library.
In the library, Plum sorts envelopes near an open coffin holding Westing’s body. More heirs arrive: Dr. Denton Deere, Angela’s fiancé; Flora Baumbach, the seamstress; Otis Amber; Doug Hoo and his father; Sandy, the doorman; Theo; and Chris. When Judge J. J. Ford arrives, Grace decides that the judge and some others must be Westing’s former household workers, not relatives. The final two heirs enter: Crow, the cleaning woman; and Sydelle Pulaski, who uses a crutch and claims to have a disease.
In the Wexler apartment, Angela, the pretty older Wexler daughter, is getting fitted for her wedding gown by Flora Baumbach, the elderly dressmaker who lives and works in the building, while Angela’s mother, Grace Windsor Wexler, supervises. Angela sees smoke coming from the Westing house chimney, and then Turtle comes into the room and makes the same announcement. Grace speaks sharply to Turtle, and when Turtle snaps back, Grace must stop herself from slapping Turtle’s face. Instead, Grace speaks of Angela’s fiancé, Dr. Deere, an intern, and beams at the perfect Angela.
Barney Northrup signed the letters, but he is not a real person. Still, a man using that name guides the prospective tenants throughout the building.
Instead, Grace speaks of Angela’s fiancé, Dr. Deere, an intern, and beams at the perfect Angela. On the first floor, Crow, the building’s cleaning woman, is being treated by Dr. Jake Wexler, a podiatrist, when she sees the smoke.
Chapter 7: The Westing Game. The heirs gather in the game room, where they are paired into eight teams: Madame Hoo (Mr. Hoo’s wife) and Jake Wexler (both absent), Turtle and Flora Baumbach, Chris and Dr. Deere, Sandy and Judge Ford, Grace and Mr. Hoo, Berthe Erica Crow and Otis, Theo and Doug, and Angela and Sydelle.
Judge Ford thinks about the clues—SKIES AM SHINING BROTHER—while examining the letter that Plum gave her, which certifies that Westing was sane. The letter is signed by Dr. Sikes, who was also in the car accident. Judge Ford mulls over the will: Westing implied that he was murdered, the murderer was an heir, he knew the murderer, and the murderer’s name was the correct answer. As she doesn’t believe Westing was the type of person to get murdered, she deduces that one of the heirs is guilty of some other action against him. Judge Ford determines to find the heir before anyone else to ensure justice, not vengeance, wins out. She calls a newspaper to find out everything she can about the heirs.
Angela Wexler is the bomber. Finally, Sydelle Pulaski is the mistake, as she was accidentally invited to participate in the Westing Game and to be a tenant of Sunset Towers and a potential heir of Sam Westing instead of Sybil Pulaski. Ellen Raskin 's rather humorous mystery novel centers on sixteen "heirs" to a fortune who must discover ...
The bookie is Dr. Wexler, the podiatrist, who becomes fixated on gambling. The burglar is Mrs. Hoo, the second wife of the restaranteur who pilfers in order to save enough to return to China. The bomber is Angela Wexler who sets a bomb on herself, perhaps, to mar her beauty so that others will perceive her in more than a superficial way.
Dr. Jake Wexler is a forty-five-year-old podiatrist who is seemingly happy and content with life. Underneath his mask of happiness, humor, and wit, however, he's just a man in need of some attention and excitement in life; he wants to do something more than just be a foot doctor, and his obnoxious wife only fuels this desire, ...
The bomber is Angela Wexler who sets a bomb on herself, perhaps, to mar her beauty so that others will perceive her in more than a superficial way. The mistake is Sydelle Pulaski. She is a mistake because it was Sybil Pulaski that the private investigator Otis Amber was to have selected; he simply read the name wrong.
Madame Sun Lin Hoo is a twenty-eight-year-old Chinese woman who is married to the fifty-year-old restaurant owner James Shin Hoo and wishes to move back to China. Madame Hoo struggles with the English language and doesn't have anyone to help her learn it—she doesn't have any close friends, and her acquaintances tend to ignore her.