The Inimitable Jeeves Characters & Character Analysis

The Inimitable Jeeves Characters

Bertie Woosterappears in All Chapters

Bertie Wooster is a member of the British upper-class, specifically the Idle Rich. He is perhaps in his late-20s, though an exact age is never given, beyond the fact that he attended Oxford several years ago. He comes from a family of great wealth, and therefore he needs no job to support himself. In fact, he calls betting on horses his career. His days are spent at the gentlemen's club, or having lunch, or visiting an acquaintance's country estate. He has no worries about money, though he wants to accumulate more through betting, and he frequently must give his friends like Bingo and Claude and Eustace money to get by.

Bertie is a bit of a clown, and his free-spiritedness combined with lack of responsibility and lack of work ethic is always getting him in trouble with his society and relatives, especially Aunt Agatha. He is desperate not to marry...
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