by PG Wodehouse
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APPEARANCE
85:13; 85:33; 85:53
IDENTITY
Jack calls Grady Jeevesy 3 times (each separated by 20 seconds), often quite theatrically, drawing attention. The character of Jeeves was a creation of humourist PG Wodehouse, which existed from 1915 to 1974, a time period which encapsulates much of the timespan that the other media in the film derive from. The first story in which he appeared is Extricating Young Gussie. Jeeves wakes his master Bertie to say his imperious aunt has suddenly arrived in New York. She wants him to help dissuade his cousin Augustus (as in Caesar) or “Gussie” from keeping company with a vaudeville girl named Ray Denison. The whole thing involves mixed emotions on everyone’s part until surprising connections bring everyone together. Gussie is staying at a hotel, and part of the action involves the barman there.
SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE
This is one of those touches that could be incidental, but the 3 repeats of the name-calling draws attention, not to mention Jack’s flamboyant barks of the word. Perhaps the only issue is whether I’m right in guessing the reference to refer to the earliest manifestation of the character, or whether some other novel mightn’t be more apt. The three calls could signal the third book containing Jeeves stories, The Inimitable Jeeves (1923). That speaks softly to the notion of these two men being copies of each other, and to Delbert Grady being a bad parody of the real Charles Grady, who is inimitable.
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