THE RICH BOY

follows the life of Anson Hunter, a scion of old money raised in a world of privilege and emotional detachment. From his sterile childhood on Long Island, through his grooming at Yale, Anson learns to master the rituals of wealth but never connects with genuine feeling. His passionate but troubled romance with Paula Legendre defines his youth; he proposes, then sabotages the relationship with drinking and emotional evasiveness, leading to her marriage to another man. As the golden era fades, Anson becomes a successful but hollow financier and social fixer, meddling in family scandals while remaining painfully alone. Haunted by Paula’s memory and unable to commit, he drifts through affairs and empty victories until news of her death in childbirth shatters him. In the end, he clings to charm and work as a shield, but the narrative reveals a man who had everything yet was already dead inside—a portrait of inherited wealth as a beautiful, suffocating trap.