Question about uncle Bill
Uncle Bill was supposed to have 250,000 dollars in savings, yet when we see him in the film, he's living alone in a trailer home. Was he a huge miser?
shareYup. Not uncommon. "Miser" might be too harsh a term though - lots of older folks worked their whole lives and spent very little, resulting in fairly sizable estates.
My father-in-law is worth several million dollars after a lifetime of low-level government work. He just saved and never spent. Helped, too, that he put a lot of his savings into blue chip stocks that, over a span of decades, multiplied his savings many times over.
I think there's a distinction to be made between miser and astute saver, and it's that a miser lives an unnecessarily uncomfortable and austere life despite having means for that not to be so.
I guess old Bill had reason enough, in his own mind at least, to live that way, but I'd have liked to see him living in a bit more security and comfort at his age (82 at the time of filming).
I feel the same way about my in-laws. They live in a luxury condo, but for the money they've got, they could travel to Venice, first class, without denting their savings.
But eventually I realized that people get comfortable living they way they do, and it's actually more uncomfortable to change that up, the older one gets.
Bill could likely have afforded a premium care home with top-shelf nursing staff, but that trailer was his home. He lived there, so it's only fitting he died there, too.