Do not be miser instead of miser ( with the accent to ).? A miser is a person little willing to spend money, and even resignation to have basic amenities. In fiction, greed is often exaggerated to the point that the miser is a wealthy and greedy type living in extreme poverty in order to save more money. The character Ebenezer Scrooge from Dickens is an obvious example.A stereotype associated with the miser is the capitalist as shown in, for example, Soviet propaganda. The two stereotypes tend to be businessmen, usually businessmen or lenders, who have great wealth but are not concerned about the plight of the poor. The difference is that, unlike the miser, the capitalist if you spend money and it is portrayed as typically leading a decadent life. Anti-Semites have been representing Jews of both forms.The Scots, Dutch and Catalans are sometimes stereotyped as greedy.There is a work of Molière entitled the miser (L 'Avare ) that tells the story of an old miser, Harpagon, wanting to his trunk of coins more than anything in the world, including his family. This, frustrated by his attitude, decides to hide his trunk. Harpagon would then be willing to anything to recover it, even to become reasonable... The play was adapted to film with the popular French comedian Louis de Funès as Harpagon.
