Oh goodness. Jeeves resanding the floor? I am now desperately trying to remember what the kitchen floor is--the rest of the apartment is carpeted, right? *flail*
I tend to forget Bertie's moral flexibility (though he really is), perhaps because Jeeves looks after his needs so well and also that boundless cheer... lol Or perhaps because he's usually doing morally flexible things either in the name of bachelorhood or in the name of helping a friend. I definitely don't think Jeeves could/would murder someone, it's just fun to push his character that far. Like, what if he hit someone over the head again, in the name of protecting Bertie's freedom, but that person was more delicate or Jeeves miscalculated, and said person died from the blow, later. But I couldn't write that. I prefer fluff with only edges of angst. *g*
Oh yes, I just read that embezzlement story a couple days ago! I loved that! Especially the ending. Stories always cause me to wonder how much was happy coincidence and how much Jeeves planned out.
I can really sympathize with the frustrated figure who feels like he/she knows better. Agatha is almost a version of Jeeves who doesn't succeed. She schemes much as he does, only her complex schemes always fail while his work out. Maybe she dislikes him so because they're so much alike in some way. They both try to improve Bertie in their own way, Jeeves is just subtler and Agatha beats Bertie over the head with it. Jeeves slowly sees he might be wrong because he listens to Bertie, but Agatha never thinks Bertie could have a point.
I don't think Bertie's ever really cared about class. Jeeves is a brilliant chap to him, regardless of station, so he has no sense of letting Jeeves get above his station. And he doesn't mind his friends wooing waitresses and so on, sort of ahead of his time on socialist views. Jeeves is sort of funnily the opposite, isn't he? He prides himself on his status but he does get above himself according to the rules he so values. It's like he's walking a line he sees but I don't so much.
And boy, every time I start contemplating Jeeves and Bertie's characters I find them so complex and so flexible I get lost. :) Sorry for going on so long!
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I tend to forget Bertie's moral flexibility (though he really is), perhaps because Jeeves looks after his needs so well and also that boundless cheer... lol Or perhaps because he's usually doing morally flexible things either in the name of bachelorhood or in the name of helping a friend. I definitely don't think Jeeves could/would murder someone, it's just fun to push his character that far. Like, what if he hit someone over the head again, in the name of protecting Bertie's freedom, but that person was more delicate or Jeeves miscalculated, and said person died from the blow, later. But I couldn't write that. I prefer fluff with only edges of angst. *g*
Oh yes, I just read that embezzlement story a couple days ago! I loved that! Especially the ending. Stories always cause me to wonder how much was happy coincidence and how much Jeeves planned out.
I can really sympathize with the frustrated figure who feels like he/she knows better. Agatha is almost a version of Jeeves who doesn't succeed. She schemes much as he does, only her complex schemes always fail while his work out. Maybe she dislikes him so because they're so much alike in some way. They both try to improve Bertie in their own way, Jeeves is just subtler and Agatha beats Bertie over the head with it. Jeeves slowly sees he might be wrong because he listens to Bertie, but Agatha never thinks Bertie could have a point.
I don't think Bertie's ever really cared about class. Jeeves is a brilliant chap to him, regardless of station, so he has no sense of letting Jeeves get above his station. And he doesn't mind his friends wooing waitresses and so on, sort of ahead of his time on socialist views. Jeeves is sort of funnily the opposite, isn't he? He prides himself on his status but he does get above himself according to the rules he so values. It's like he's walking a line he sees but I don't so much.
And boy, every time I start contemplating Jeeves and Bertie's characters I find them so complex and so flexible I get lost. :) Sorry for going on so long!