Plot question?

[kelby_lake]

This rich man is in love with this woman. Should his younger playboy brother come back to steal her away or should the woman just leave?
Which is the best way for the plot to go?

[e(ver)i]

The woman should get a job transfer to some far away country, from where she keeps in touch with the rich man, telling him about this fantastic man she has met, never mentioning a name, she comes back to visit, and the rich man discovers that her new sweetheart is his younger playboy brother, who he knows only stays with a girl long enough to sleep with her, then he leaves.

How does that sound?

[kelby_lake]

Good but the way I'm sorta going is that the rich man has a gatsbyesque obsession with the girl and primarily his dead wife. his debauched brother is trying to make him see sense and reveals that the 'perfect' wife used to go to his parties and take drugs with him, thus shattering his brother's dream of her.

[PeterL]

This rich man is in love with this woman. Should his younger playboy brother come back to steal her away or should the woman just leave?
Which is the best way for the plot to go?

That depends on what you intend the story to be about. The younger brother thing is significantly different from her just leaving.

[kelby_lake]

i know she'll leave but i'm not sure whether i'm doing a modern millionaire/old-fashioned millionaire comparison, which would be interesting at least for me...or whether the woman would not just be appalled by the man and go. It's deciding how much of a character to make the younger brother.

[DickZ]

i know she'll leave but i'm not sure whether i'm doing a modern millionaire/old-fashioned millionaire comparison, which would be interesting at least for me...or whether the woman would not just be appalled by the man and go. It's deciding how much of a character to make the younger brother.
After all this careful planning and setting up the scene, and mulling over whether the millionaire will be modern or old-fashioned, and pondering what countries the different characters will come from and travel to, and who gets to sleep with whom, and in what countries the sleeping goes on, and how much money the respective sleepers have in whatever country they are in at any point in the story, and what denomination that money will be from country to country, I'm eagerly awaiting the actual story to see how it all comes out.

[Naya Cos]

I think too many rich people ruins it. So, instead of playboy brother let it be a pool boy, tennis pro, gardner. Rich woman and low class love, now that is a time honored tradition! But if you still insist, you could still make it a total stranger!

[kelby_lake]

It's quite opulent and sort of like the great gatsby in a sense.
the person who comes back has to be someone the man knows because they confront him and tell him what his 'pure' wife who died 8 years ago was really like. i thought possibly a brother because i could echo their argument with an argument they might have had when they were younger.
the brother could of course now be bankrupt. what are your thoughts?

[kelby_lake]

dramatic question?

[xtianfriborg13]

She should just go herself. It would be more dramatic if the woman decides for herself rather than someone's doing that for her.

[cacian]

Wow I personally would not mix family with pleasure and so I would keep the two brothers well separate .
I think getting family involved in love affairs is a big nono.
I would not implicate a brother with another's brother's girlfriend and so not I think either the woman does not go for it because she does not mix with brothers or change the brother into something else a new person.
I would not implicate friends either.
That is my opinion but of course you do not have to take it.