Why Is Sam Westing Wrong

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My theory is that Sam Westing wasn’t murdered at all. I think that Westing is using his game to find the rightful heir to inherit his estate and wealth. Also, I think that he faked his death to throw off the heirs and pull the keen from the dense. Since his daughter,Violet, had committed suicide by drowning in the lake, and his wife had left him two years after the death. Westing didn’t have a person to take over his business. So, Westing would use the game to find his heir. As the text provides, most of the heirs are stuck up, ignorant, or just plain out of it. Westing would want someone that has a connection to him, that’s why most of the heirs have a connection to him in some way. Westing needs an heir for when he truly dies, his business must be passed onto a person worthy of being in that kind of work. He needs …show more content…

Those two heirs were Turtle Wexler and Judge Ford. Judge Ford thought this already and she figured out that Turtle thought the same when she was interviewing her about the fireworks. Turtle, then, had said that when she found the body in the Westing house, it looked like a wax dummy and not a real life dead body. J.J, earlier during the reading of the will, had thought the same thing, that the body did not look real. Following up on that fact, always if someone is murdered, especially someone of that importance, an autopsy is performed to figure out the murderer. This ALWAYS happens, the police should have been all over the case. But, the body did not get an autopsy, even the Judge thought it was not unlawful to have an autopsy, and the only reason the cops came was because of the bomb cases, but those came later. So, since the autopsy didn’t happen, the body must be fake! In conclusion, i believe that Sam Westing wasn’t murdered, but he was using the game to find his rightful heir to inherit his estate and

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