"The Model Millionaire" Oscar Wilde. Essay: Describe and analyze the character of Hughie. Part 1 It is hard to find someone generous enough to give a couple of pounds to a person in need of money, so expecting from a Baron dressed up as a beggar to give 10’000 to a young and inexperienced man is even more impossible. Nevertheless, stories are stories and Hugh Erskine could have faith in his luck. This good-looking and delightful man had only beauty as a weapon. On the other side, he was not intelligent enough to even argue. Carefree with a happy-go-lucky side, he was easily discouraged by words. He was rather interested about horse-racing and magazines. In addition to that, he had no profession and in love with Laura. Hughie gives us the feeling that he is living hand to mouth although he does not look poor. The only source of income we know he has is two hundred a year thanks an old aunt. I think that Hughie is acting and living like a child lost in a self-centered world of either rich or poor people. Hugh Erskine is not interested about learning new things and he is not intelligent. Culture is for him what school is for children: a torture. The inheritance of his father went lost between his other hobbys and he could not help to concentrate on studies or an apprenticeship for example, which would have helped him on finding a job and earn the £10’000 required to marry Laura.