Bertie is the straight guy in an ill-assorted-duo crime caper yarn. Jeeves is the Svengali cat-burglar master criminal hiding in the penumbral shadow of his master's blithe, oblivious bonhomie. When Bertie gets into trouble and takes off for an ancestral pile for the weekend it's usually a side-effect of manipulation by Jeeves who, having burgled somewhere posh, wants to go to ground. When Bertie attracts attention from the police, it's usually because they know the villain is around here somewhere. Jeeves has, over the years, learned the knack of manipulating Bertie into doing and saying exactly what he suggests in any situation, by digging the not-too-bright lad out of any rough spots he encounters: Bertie is dependent on him, and not in a good way. For hanging over them both is the shadow of the noose, for in his younger, more impulsive days Jeeves slew a man, and now he has found an easily manipulated patsy he will ensure that, should an arrest be made, it will be Bertie who swings for his sins. (See also John Christie, Timothy Evans, Rillington Place murders, etc.)
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Date: 2010-02-16 02:10 pm (UTC)Bertie is the straight guy in an ill-assorted-duo crime caper yarn. Jeeves is the Svengali cat-burglar master criminal hiding in the penumbral shadow of his master's blithe, oblivious bonhomie. When Bertie gets into trouble and takes off for an ancestral pile for the weekend it's usually a side-effect of manipulation by Jeeves who, having burgled somewhere posh, wants to go to ground. When Bertie attracts attention from the police, it's usually because they know the villain is around here somewhere. Jeeves has, over the years, learned the knack of manipulating Bertie into doing and saying exactly what he suggests in any situation, by digging the not-too-bright lad out of any rough spots he encounters: Bertie is dependent on him, and not in a good way. For hanging over them both is the shadow of the noose, for in his younger, more impulsive days Jeeves slew a man, and now he has found an easily manipulated patsy he will ensure that, should an arrest be made, it will be Bertie who swings for his sins. (See also John Christie, Timothy Evans, Rillington Place murders, etc.)