Literary Review of Wodehouse's Jeeves Takes Charge

Literary Review of Wodehouse’s Jeeves Takes Charge
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November 26, 2017
Introduction
The story “Jeeves Takes Charge” is a story written by Wodehouse in 1919. The main story was set to be between the years of 1910 and 1920. During those times, Wodehouse’s technique of storytelling was deemed to be creative and exemplary particularly for his use of “slang, exaggeration and understatement, mixed metaphor, and literary reference” (Encyclopedia.com). Because of this countless authors through the years have emphasized and praised Wodehouse’s writings for its satirical nature, which presents the daily lives of Middle-class British during those times, in an entertaining yet critical manner. Particularly, I believe that one of the underlying themes of the story concerns the “boss-servant” relationship that exists between middle-class men and servants, particularly in a matter that concerns the “love”. However, for this article, I would not only want to focus on the underlying meaning aforementioned below. Rather, I think that this analogy of a “boss servant” relationship could still be made between us, the bosses (Bertie), and our modern day servant, the Social media (Jeeves). However, before proceeding to the main analysis, I believe that a quick summary of the story is necessary.
Plot Summary
The story of Jeeves starts when Bertie’s previous butler, Meadows, was removed from employment as he was caught pinching his socks. Because of this incident, Bertie has become wary of hiring new butlers as he thinks that there’s a possibility that Meadow’s actions could happen again. Nonetheless, as he asked for the London registry to seek a replacement for Meadows, they sent Jeeves to Bertie’s employment. At first glance, Bertie has been surprised and satisfied with Jeeves’ ability to get things done efficiently and quietly, that even deemed him as a “genius” (Plumtopia). In order to further win Bertie’s approval, Jeeves did his best in order to win his master’s approval.
Nonetheless, as the two personas developed a close relationship with one another, Jeeves’ knack for meddling with his master’s love affairs has become more apparent. This instance happened with Bertie announced that he has recently been engaged to Lady Florence Craye. After this instance, a series of events that would lead from one instance to another would take place. Particularly, as Lady Florence and Bertie was starting to move on with their engagement, Florence has explicitly asked Bertie to have his Willoughby’s memoirs (Bertie’s uncle) to be destroyed. However, even if Bertie was initially opposed to it, he followed Florence’s commands and asked Jeeves to dispose of the manuscript, Jeeves sent it to the publisher instead. Because of this Bertie’s engagement with Lady Florence was then canceled and Jeeves’ was terminated from his employment because of his underhanded methods.
However, upon being rem...