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Julian R. Eastman
Barney Northrup is a salesman charged with renting the six available apartments in the newly-constructed Sunset Towers on Lake Michigan—and an alias of Sam Westing. Barney Northrup wears a disguise—a bad wig and buck-toothed dentures—in order to throw the Westing heirs off his trail. Northrup is unkind and business-oriented above all else. He is the most minor of Westing’s aliases.
Barney Northrup Quotes in The Westing Game
The The Westing Game quotes below are all either spoken by Barney Northrup or refer to Barney Northrup. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes
Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.
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Chapter 26 Quotes
The estate is at the crossroads. The heir who wins the windfall will be the one who finds the
FOURTH.
That's it, that has to be it: The heir who wins the windfall will be the one who finds the fourth! Windy Windkloppel took four names, and [Turtle] knew who the fourth one was!
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Chapter 30 Quotes
Julian R. Eastman was dead; and with him died Windy Windkloppel, Samuel W. Westing, Barney Northrup, and Sandy McSouthers. And with him died a little of Turtle.
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Barney Northrup Character Timeline in The Westing Game
The timeline below shows where the character Barney Northrup appears in The Westing Game. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...of a group of “chosen” tenants-to-be. The letters are signed from a man named Barney Northrup—but no one receiving these letters is aware that Barney Northrup does not exist. The six...
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All six recipients of the letters make appointments with the man called Barney Northrup to see the apartments. Barney is a practiced salesman who knows how to appeal to...
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In just one day, Barney Northrup manages to rent all of the apartments in Sunset Towers. Jake Wexler, a podiatrist, takes...
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Chapter 8
...learn everything she can about each heir. She picks up the phone to call Barney Northrup, deciding to start investigating Sunset Towers, but he doesn’t answer. She calls the paper to...
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Chapter 22
...the drill by thinking of a visit she and her family received earlier from Barney Northrup, demanding repayment for all the damage done throughout the building by Turtle’s bombs. Turtle kicked...
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Sandy returns to Ford’s apartment to deliver some sad news. He says that Barney Northrup has fired him for being lazy and drinking on the job—all lies, Sandy insists. Sandy...
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Chapter 25
...huge bruise on his shin. Turtle says the only person she kicked today was Barney Northrup.
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Chapter 26
...confesses that he is a private investigator in disguise—his three clients are Sam Westing, Barney Northrup, and Judge Ford. Westing hired him twenty years ago to take care of Crow—and make...
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Turtle stops talking. Ford waits for her to make the connection between Sandy and Northrup for everyone, but Turtle doesn’t say anything. She privately puzzles over why Westing played three...
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Chapter 27
...obvious the answer is. The first three of the “four winds” are Sam Westing, Barney Northrup, and Sandy McSouthers—now, as she pulls up to the mansion of the chairman of the...
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Chapter 30
When Eastman dies, with him die Windy Windkloppel, Sam Westing, Barney Northrup, and Sandy McSouthers. No one ever learns T.R.’s secret—and so a little bit of her...
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