Age Essay 1

[hobbitjc.livejournal.com]

I'd asked in a comment to chikkiboo's post if people might like to read a few published J&W essays, and a couple folks expressed interest. So No. 1 is behind the cut.

I suck with a scanner, sorry. And I've no idea how to use Photobucket. I hope they're at least readable.

Please let me know if I'm breaking Community rules or posting unwanted information.
I already know I'll be breaking copyright law once I've posted more than 10% of "Thank You, Wodehouse" (which is little more than a pamphlet, anyway). But I really recommend you buy the books, if you can find them --especially "Wodehouse in Woostershire," which is an encyclopedia of all things J&W.











This essay is from "Wodehouse in Woostershire," by Tony Ring and Geoffrey Jaggard.

Comments

[amethystaura.livejournal.com]

If there's anything that makes me cringe till I'm no longer visible, it's the prospect of Jeeves being a good deal older to Bertie. It's ridiculous if one wishes to view them as a couple rather than a father figure/surrogate parent/guardian and his "responsibility", for whom he must care as a father would for his child. The maximum that I can tolerate is an age difference of five years, because as it is there's a gross imbalance that stands out in our fanfiction, highlighting the fact that Bertie's the young master and Jeeves is described as the older man, with "age and experience on his side", full of lust for the blooming fragility of Bertie's youth.
It makes me shudder.
When I started reading Wodehouse, and was not under the influence of the TV show or this fandom, my personal image of Jeeves was of a sober and subdued man, possibly just a few years his master's senior, but obviously seeming more so because of his enormous mental capacity. Therefore, Stephen Fry wasn't a big disappointment at all, in fact his young yet mature face was just as I had imagined it, (but probably a little on the heavy side, I'll admit that).

[lawnnun.livejournal.com]

I find the bishification of Bertie interesting, because it's so subtle. He's so close to *actually* being a wide-eyed, quaking, ivory-skinned lump of nubile innocence, that I can see where the mistake is made. XD