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Who outbid Tiana for the restaurant?

posted 12 years ago by annie-293
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It's strange that after being derelict for so long, someone would walk in and outbid Tiana just when she got enough money for the down payment. Given Beaufort's reaction to Tiana saying that she finally had enough for the down payment, he'd be a logical person to try to thwart her dream. But, I assume he's just a cook (he's not called Duke, after all, and it's Duke's restaurant -- he's just the short-order cook) so how would he come up with the money? Doctor Facilier would be another possibility, but when the Fenner brothers tell Tiana she's been overbid, Tiana isn't a factor in Facilier's plot against Big Daddy. Presumably the Fenners were just brokers, and willing to sell if Tiana had the money, or they would have rebuffed her from the start.

So, who?

[–] Amarillo10 12 years ago

i don't think anyone out-bid her. the fenner brothers didn't want to sell it because tiana is a young black woman. if someone had actually outbid her the building wouldn't still be for sale after she and naveen became human again.

*Amarillo* --Euripides? Eumenides!

[–] velcronewsletter 12 years ago

^ correct. they would rather nobody had got it rather than a black woman

[–] lovelylilygirl 12 years ago

I always thought it was the shadow man, he was in the cafe when she got the money for it, and everyone was bashing her dream (which he showed her in the end) and that's why it was still available at the end BC he was taken to the other side.

That theory holds also tho. It's a little deeper defiantly.

[–] uruseiranma 11 years ago

"I always thought it was the shadow man"

Facile doesn't have the kind of profits to buy up a place like that. If he did, why would he still be wanting to pull the con on Big Daddy?

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[–] lovelylilygirl 11 years ago

Because greed is never satisfied.

[–] velcronewsletter 11 years ago

he didn't need to bother with such small fry, he was onto bigger things

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