Professor Harold Hill's The Music Man

There are con artists in the world, people willing to try to swindle other people for a variety of different reasons. There are people that have almost no conscience and are willing to do anything for a personal gain. In the play “The Music Man” Professor Harold Hill is a con man. He travels the country giving people a taste of what it would be like for their children to be apart of a wonderful band and then having them pay for that band that would never be. Professor Harold Hill is exactly the type of man that would do most anything for a personal gain, not truly caring how many people he hurt. Near the end of the play though, Harold finds that he does not enjoy swindling people anymore and wants to own up to his wrongs and settle down.
When Harold arrived at River City, Iowa, he encountered a stubborn minded set

When a new pool table was introduced to the town Harold saw the perfect setup to ensnare them saying, “Pockets mark the difference between a gentleman and a bum with a capital ‘B’ and that rhymes with ‘P’ and that stands for pool!” As well as “Ya gotta find a way to keep the young ones moral after school!” Making the people think that their sons were being reckless with their time and definitely needed something to better occupy it. And Harold had just the thing for them, a boys band.
Harold’s only problem was the town’s music teacher Miss Marian Paroo. She was Skeptical of Harold the moment she first laid eyes on him. Marian was not one to recede easily either, resisting falling under his charms she looked for ways to discredit everything he said. But Harold won out in the end after getting Marian’s little brother, Winthrop, to come out of his shell. Harold said, “A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?” Convincing Marian that perhaps he was not as bad as he