And you will never, ever convince me that Jeeves didn't know that Bertie wasn't going to rent that cottage from Chuffy and manoeuvre his way into that situation so that he could stay around Bertie. Plus, even while he was Chuffy's servant, he spent more time with Bertie than with anyone else.
It has been a while since I read the story version, but I think in the television version that Jeeves did indeed plan to simply leave as "a gesture", as he would say.
But at the same time . . . Jeeves also faced some revelations while he was away from Bertie. Chuffy and Mr. Stoker both admire him for his valeting abilities and (in Chuffy's case) cleverness, but at the same time Chuffy trades Jeeves off to Stoker without a thought. There is a scene in that episode where Jeeves is walking out of that big hallway by himself with a suitcase . . . just a very lonely scene.
While many of Jeeves' employers must have used his brainpower to get out of scrapes, I think Bertie is the only one who sees him more as a person than as a particularly clever dog whose only purpose is to pull people back from cliffs before they fall over.
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Date: 2011-12-20 05:26 am (UTC)It has been a while since I read the story version, but I think in the television version that Jeeves did indeed plan to simply leave as "a gesture", as he would say.
But at the same time . . . Jeeves also faced some revelations while he was away from Bertie. Chuffy and Mr. Stoker both admire him for his valeting abilities and (in Chuffy's case) cleverness, but at the same time Chuffy trades Jeeves off to Stoker without a thought. There is a scene in that episode where Jeeves is walking out of that big hallway by himself with a suitcase . . . just a very lonely scene.
While many of Jeeves' employers must have used his brainpower to get out of scrapes, I think Bertie is the only one who sees him more as a person than as a particularly clever dog whose only purpose is to pull people back from cliffs before they fall over.