The Westing GameBy Ellen Raskin

Exposition

Setting Same Westing was

found dead in his Westingtown mansion

All of the suspects/heirs are living in Sunset Towers expect Mr. Amber who lives in the basement of Green’s Grocery

Mood Shocked

Distraught

Excited

Nervous

PLOTSam Westing is dead in his will he said that one of the heir has killed him. Mr. Westing alone knows the name of the murder. Whichever one of the heirs find out who the killer is will inherit Sam

Westing’s fortune. Let the games begin…

16 Suspects Which one killed Mr. Westing?

Baumbach FLORA BAUMBACH

Maiden name: Flora Miller

Age 60

Job: Dressmaker

Husband left her years ago, he sends no money

She had a retarded daughter, Rosalie

Sold bridal shop last year after Rosalie died of pneumonia

Sends most of her time at the stockbrokers

WESTING CONNECTION

Mrs. Baumbach made a wedding gown for Mr. Westing daughter Violet Westing, which

she never got to wear.

Amber

OTIS JOSEPH AMBER:

Age 62

Job: Delivery boy

Education: fourth-grade dropout

IQ of 50

Lives in the basement of Green’s Grocery

Single

No living relatives

WESTING CONNECTION

Mr. Amber delivered letters from E. J. Plum, Attorney both times.

Deere

D. DENTON DEERE:

Age: 25

Education: graduate of UW Medical School

First-year intern, Plastic Surgery

Parents live in Racine (parents are not heirs)

Engaged to Angela Wexler (one of the heirs)

WESTING CONNECTION

Engaged to Angela Wexler, who looks like Sam Westing’s daughter, Violet, who was also to be married. But to a politician not

an intern

Pulaski

SYDELLE PULASKI:

Age 50

Education: high school, one year of secretarial school

Secretary to the president of Schultz Sausages

Is taking her first vacation in 25 years

Lived with widowed mother and two aunts until she moved in to Sunset Towers

Walked with crutches even before she broke her ankle in the second bombing

WESTING CONNECTION

UNKNOWN

Crow

BERTHE ERICA CROW:

Age: 57

Education: 1 year of high school

Married at age 16, divorced at age 40

Ex-husband's name: Windy Windkloppel

hospital records: problems related to alcohol problems

Gave up drinking when she took up religion

Started Good Salvation Soup Kitchen

Works as cleaning woman in Sunset Towers

WESTING CONNECTION

UNKNOWN…for now

McSouthers

ALEXANDER MCSOUTHERS

Called Sandy

Age: 65

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland

Immigrated to Wisconsin at age 3

Jobs: mill worker, union organizer, prizefighter, doorman.

Married has six kids, and two grandkids

No regular payment

WESTING CONNECTION

Worked in Westing Paper Plant for 10 years, but fired by Sam Westing himself for trying

to organize the workers

Ford

JOSIE-JO FORD

Age: 42

Education: Columbia, law degree, Harvard

Jobs: assistant district attorney, Judge, family court, state supreme court, appellate division

Not married, no kids

WESTING CONNECTION

Education financed by Sam Westing, the debt was never repaid

(Lived in the Westing house, her mother was the maid, her father was the

gardener.)

The Hoo Family

JAMES SHIN HOO:

Born in Chicago

Age 50

Added Shin in his name when he went into the restaurant business because it sounded more Chinese

Owns a high class restaurant on the top floor of Sunset towers

First wife died of cancer five years ago

Married again last year

Has one son Douglas

SUN LIN HOO:Born in ChinaAge 28Immigrated from Hong Kong two year agoDoes not speak much English

DOUGLAS HOO: Age 18High school track starIs competing in track meet against collage milers

WESTING CONNECTION

Mr. Hoo sued Same Westing over the invention of the disposable paper diaper. Case never came to court because Mr. Westing disappeared. Mr. Hoo settled with the company last year for

$25,000. (Mr. Hoo thinks he was cheated)

The Wexler Family

JAKE WELER Age 45 Education: graduated from Marquette Married for 22 yearsHas two daughters

GRACE WEXLERMaiden name Grace Windklopple Age 42Married to Jake Wexler Job: interior decorator Spends most of her time in Mr. Hoo’s restaurant

ANGELA WEXLERAge: 20 Engaged to marry D. Denton Deere (also a heir) Education: one year of college (high grades) Victim of the third bombing

TURTLE WEXLER Real name: Tabitha-Ruth Wexler age:13 (junior high student)Plays in the stock market

WESTING CONNECTION

Grace Windsor Wexler claims that Sam Westing is her real uncle.

(Angela looks like Violet Westing, so does Grace, except she’s older)

The Theodorakis

brothers

THEO THEODORAKIS

Age: 17

Is a High-school senior

Works in the family coffee shop

Wants to be a writer

Neither parents are heirs

CHRISTOS THEODORAKIS Age: 15Confined to wheelchair, disease struck about four years agoKnows a lot about birds Neither parents are heirs

WESTING CONNECTION

Father was childhood sweetheart of Sam Westing’s daughter, Violet. Mrs. Westing broke up the affair. She wanted Violet to marry somebody else, but Violet Westing killed herself before

the wedding.