Eugenie Grandet's description of the candle when he died.

Grandet saw the performance of candles.

"Wrap the quilt tightly" for fear that others will steal. Staring at gold for hours. Especially in the funeral ceremony, when the gold and silver vessels appeared, the eyes that had been dead for several hours "immediately revived" and "the sarcoma finally moved"; He also made a terrible gesture, grabbed the gold-plated cross in his hand and told his daughter, "Take good care of everything! Come over there and pay my bill. " These words, actions and details are vividly described, which profoundly shows Grandet's love for money until his death.

Grandet is an important figure in Balzac's novel Eugenie Grandet and the father of Eugenie Grandet. He is one of the richest and most prestigious businessmen in Somme, France, but he is extremely stingy. In his eyes, his daughter and wife are not as good as his dime. Is the representative of the miser. -Although the story of Eugenie Grandet runs through the book, Old Grandet is undoubtedly the most distinctive figure. In the eyes of old Grandet, money is above everything else. Without money, everything is over. His thirst for money and possessiveness almost reached a morbid level: he locked himself in a secret room in the middle of the night, caressing, playing and admiring his gold coins, putting them in a bucket and tying them tightly.