Allison Schuette-Hoffman

Note: Earl Tupper was the inventor of Tupperware. Brownie Wise was the charismatic salesperson that convinced him to sell his product only through parties. She was largely responsible for the company’s initial success.

I. Mr. Tupper Writes Brownie a Letter and Then Refuses Her Phone Calls

In the beginning, he favored her. “Anyone that cute,” he crowed in a letter to her, “has no right being so smart.” He meant it as praise. Later, when he fired her, he made no mention of beauty or brains.

“The man was a genius,” one acquaintance noted, then added, “Not with people though.”

II. Recruiting

The Tupperware dealer turned to the hostess’s husband and placed a reassuring hand upon his forearm. “Oh,” she paused to smile. “You’re the breadwinner, but she can bring in a little piece of cake.”

III. The Reluctant Husband

He didn’t want her to get involved in such shenanigans. “When the whole thing’s over, where will we be? Stuck with a bunch of junk, that’s where.” She nodded slightly in apparent deference, then kissed his cheek and patted his shoulder as she walked away. What she didn’t say was that she’d had to put out the money for that “bunch of junk” already. As she recounted later to the gals at her first Tupperware party, “It just didn’t seem like the right time to tell him.”

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