Exposition: Wallace Greenman is a 24-year-old white male. Living a fairly normal life in Boston MA. Wallace lives on his own in a small apartment. A recent graduate of Boston University, he is an administrative assistant at Brooks & Pyle, a local publishing house.
Inciting incident: When grabbing the morning coffee, Wallace gets a phone call from his father. Since Mr. Saul Greenman left Wallace and his mom, Deidre when Wallace was twelve, this awkward conversation was one that came unexpectedly. As the only child in the Greenman line, Wallace inherited an egregious amount of money, the exact amount unnamed.
Rising Action: Shocked at the sudden appearance of his father back into his life and the tons of money, Wallace is overwhelmed. He considers himself a good guy – raised catholic, even though he doesn’t go to church anymore (it always felt kind of fake), he still gives money to homeless people and picked up trash on the street. Wallace makes a master list of things to do with the money – savings, donations and other things beneficial things to society.
Tempted by the power brought by money, Wallace throws a big party, “just this once…” Eventually, Wallace gets sucked in to the whirlwind of money and the things easily accessible because of it.
Climax: Waking up with a hangover two months later, Wallace can’t stop thinking about his old habit of _______. Finally he drags himself out of his cali-king bed and sends the women home. After checking his email, (or maybe turning on the news on TV) Wallace discovers that while he has been squandering his fortune, his father is millions in debt from embezzlement Wallace makes up his mind to help his father, because Wallace owed his dad for his inheritance.
Resolution: After cleaning up both himself and his penthouse, Wallace checks the account from which he has been constantly using his debit card. He has nothing left.
Denouement: The amount of money that Wallace spent on his four supercars would have been enough to get his dad out of debt.
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