Yeeeeees. 'Right Ho, Jeeves' is all about Bertie trying to prove he's the dominant partner in the relationship and failing, miserably. Things are spiraling spectacularly out of control and I keep waiting for him to suck it up and apologize to Jeeves, but... I'm almost to the end and he's only halfheartedly admitted he might need Jeeve's 'input.' And I know Jeeves is going to pull his dumb ass out of the fire *anyway.*
(I love Bertie, dearly, I do! He's just being an ass. And it's interesting that the story's based around the conflict of *four* couples - Angela and Gussie, Fink-Nottle and the Basset, Aunt Dehlia and Uncle Tom, *and* Bertie and Jeeves. Only the last one is kind of sneaky, because Bertie's telling the story and he hasn't caught on that he's fighting with Jeeves, much less that said fight is the source of everyone else's continued problems. I *love* Wodehouse.)
Which is to say, yes, throw the boy in the deep end, see if he swims.
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Date: 2009-07-09 09:44 pm (UTC)(I love Bertie, dearly, I do! He's just being an ass. And it's interesting that the story's based around the conflict of *four* couples - Angela and Gussie, Fink-Nottle and the Basset, Aunt Dehlia and Uncle Tom, *and* Bertie and Jeeves. Only the last one is kind of sneaky, because Bertie's telling the story and he hasn't caught on that he's fighting with Jeeves, much less that said fight is the source of everyone else's continued problems. I *love* Wodehouse.)
Which is to say, yes, throw the boy in the deep end, see if he swims.