Wealthy Ever After: Difference between revisions

== [[Fairy Tales]] ==

* In ''[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/crane/storycatherine.html Catherine and Her Fate]'', a rich merchant's daughter is asked whether she would rather be happy in youth or age. When she chooses age, her father loses his wealth and dies, and she lives in poverty, but she ends up marrying a wealthy king.

{{quote| ''Bluebeard had no heirs, and so his wife became mistress of all his estate. She made use of one part of it to marry her sister Anne to a young gentleman who had loved her a long while; another part to buy captains commissions for her brothers, and the rest to marry herself to a very worthy gentleman, who made her forget the ill time she had passed with Bluebeard.''}}

{{quote| ''And as they had no longer any cause for fear, they went in the old hag's house, and here they found, in every corner of the room, boxes with pearls and precious stones. "These are even better than pebbles," said Hansel, and crammed his pockets full of them; and Gretel said: "I too will bring something home," and she filled her apron full.''}}

* In ''[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/189peasantdevil.html The Peasant and the Devil]'', the peasant outwits the devil to lay claim to treasure in his field without giving anything for it.

== Film ==

 

* ''[[Paycheck]]'' ended with the protagonists winning $90 million lottery. By seeing the future.

* ''[[It Could Happen To You]]'': In a beautiful twist, they were destitute, but took in a homeless man to give him soup when they could ill afford to share anything. That homeless man was a reporter for the NY Times who described them as kind, gentle people who were not bitter they'd been made destitute. And then the donations came pouring in, making them rich again. Meanwhile, the selfish harpy that took all their money [[Laser-Guided Karma|gets all of it stolen by a con man and is forced to move back in with her mother and return to her old job in a nail salon]].

* ''[[National Treasure]]'' had the museums paying 1% of the treasure's value to the protagonists. It was stated a few times the treasure was worth about $10 billion US dollars, so even 1% set them for life.

* ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'', anyone?

 

 

* Comically subverted in ''[[The Young Ones]]'' episode "Cash", where a lorry full of money crashes into the Young Ones' house, apparently solving their financial problems forever, until the house and money get blown up.

* ''[[Outrageous Fortune]]''

* The last few episodes of ''[[Roseanne]]''.

 

== Literature ==

* In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] novel ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'', former companion Anji turns out to have become one of the richest women in Britain because Trix, while traveling with the Doctor, managed to send her financial information from the future. Since Fitz and Trix have decided (for the time being, anyway) that they want to settle down together, she cuts them in on it.

* ''The Warlock O' Glenwarlock'' by George Mac Donald (alternative title: ''The Laird's Inheritance'') ends with Cosmo Warlock discovering a great treasure within the walls of the family keep. After, of course, learning that money doesn't really matter if you have faith in God and a good heart.

* Sara Crewe from [[A Little Princess]], after Mr Carrisford finds her and adopts her and the investment that her father had put into was actually worth much, much more than they thought.

* By the end of ''[[Mara Daughter of the Nile]]'', Mara has realized that there are things that are far more important to her then freedom and gold, her motivations at the beginning. However, she ends up receiving both of them anyway, one through a boon of the new king, and the other through marrying her love, Count Sheftu.

 

== Theater ==

* ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' ends with Petruchio and Katerina winning a bet, adding twenty thousand plus one hundred crowns to the dowry [[Gold Digger|Petruchio was after in the first place]].