6/29/2023 0 Comments Thank you jeeves bookMostly, though, they steer clear of overt racism, generally because his world is lily-white. So we can argue back and forth over how classist Wodehouse’s stories really are. Their relationship suggests that even the most talented and renowned of the working classes won’t rise up against the wealthy classes that have done nothing to earn or maintain that wealth. It can be argued, though, that Jeeves’ contentment with being employed by such a nitwit is itself reassuring. For Jeeves – as Bertie is constantly reminded, to comic effect – has a brilliant mind, and is much more capable than the feckless Bertie. Sure, there’s a subversive bent to Wodehouse’s most famous creations: the dopey bachelor Bertie and the unflappable valet Jeeves. Though immensely charming, his works are essentially nostalgic yearnings for a world of harmlessly genteel and likable aristocrats benefitting from inherited money and titles, employing a vast machinery of servants, and largely oblivious to the outside world (like those pesky world wars). Wodehouse was never going to be beloved of egalitarians.
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