Everyone knows the story of Molly Brown the amazing woman who survived the Titanic and than was later called the Unsinkable Molly Brown but the problem is most of the sources about her say different things about her life before the Titanic. One source states that she stripped down to her corset but, Another source says she never did that it would be crazy because she would freeze to death. Some people say that she burned three hundred thousand dollars worth in a stove, others say she only burned seventy-five dollars and others say that it never happened. While historians believe that Molly Brown was a remarkable person, accounts of her life recall the same events with different facts and perspectives. In the The Golden Rube by Stephens he says that $75 was lost in the stove incident and he makes up crazy stories of how Molly and her husband got divorced. He states “ The story circulated that she once secreted away $300,000 in the cookstove, only to have the …show more content…
They state “She did not fire a gun, threaten people (besides the quartermaster), or strip down to her corset.” The only reason she threatened the quartermaster was he wasn't helping them row, he was just being annoying, and not helpful. In The unsinkable Molly Brown by Fowler he conveys that Molly stripped to her corset and shot a gun while in the life boat and according to the A&E biography neither of those things happened which leaves you to wonder which one is correct. They also are the only story that mentions that Molly “interviewed, soothed, and helped the children and women when the big lifeboat arrived. Molly took some of the immigrants under her wing. raised lots of money for the immigrants and the crew of the carpathia." This story is the only one that told you about her kindness to everyone who lost everything they owned on the Titanic: family, friends,