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Post by lsandthebooks on Sept 5, 2019 15:35:17 GMT -5
Unlike Esme, Jerome never goes to work. But he was able to buy the extremely expensive penthouse before he and Esme got married. Is his way of making income ever mentioned in the series?
Jacques Snicket was really desperate to make sure that Jerome would buy it, because it was an old VFD headquarters. Since there is a Snicket fortune, then Jacques could have access to a huge amount of money. And he couldn't buy the penthouse himself since that would alert their enemies that the penthouse was important, and it would have put the Baudelaire mansion in danger because of the passageway.
Jerome says he was good friends with Beatrice when they were kids, so Jacques could have trusted him due to that...is it possible that Jacques actually gave Jerome money?
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Post by Foxy on Sept 6, 2019 6:38:36 GMT -5
I suppose it is possible, but I had heard other people on here say Jerome likely inherited his money. My personal thoughts are that Jerome is an author, so he works whatever hours he wants wherever he wants. That's why writing the gigantic OLAF book in a matter of months was no big deal for him.
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Post by Dante on Sept 6, 2019 15:51:18 GMT -5
It's never clear, but it was always my impression that Jerome was independently wealthy. If Jacques had paid off Jerome to buy the penthouse, I'm certain that this would have come up in the letters between them in the U.A. Come to that, Jacques could just have bought it himself! I'm not convinced by the idea that he would have needed to act in secrecy, as he still had a public identity as a detective and occasional journalist; and conversely, just Jerome having bought the penthouse didn't stop Esmé from knowing there was something important about it.
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Post by Foxy on Sept 7, 2019 9:02:58 GMT -5
I wonder why Jacques would have wanted Jerome to buy the penthouse in the first place? He wasn't in VFD, so he couldn't necessarily keep the floor above the penthouse safe. I suppose Jacques could not have predicted Jerome marrying Esme.
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Post by Dante on Sept 7, 2019 11:26:47 GMT -5
I think the idea was that ownership of the penthouse effectively brought with it control of the ersatz elevator, the Baudelaire passageway, and the floor above the penthouse, whatever significance that has. A villain who owned the penthouse could invite any number of suspicious people past the doorman, bent on nefarious errands; whereas a volunteer could help their associates hold secret meetings and manage an escape route.
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