Indiscretions of Archie · Character

J. B. Wheeler

A golf-loving businessman whose chief ambition is keeping his painting wife away from her easel and on the links, where she can't produce more art.

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Also known as Wheeler, old Wheeler, Mr. Wheeler

First appearance: V: Strange Experience of an Artist’s Model

As a supporting figure in Indiscretions of Archie, J. B. Wheeler is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Offers Archie a job posing for a magazine cover at the Pen-and-Ink Club.

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Wheeler is an acquaintance of Archie's who turns up in the hotel orbit, cheerfully confessing that a stolen painting was the best thing that ever happened to him because it freed his wife to take up golf. His breezy pragmatism — 'God bless you!' he cries when Archie admires the vanished picture — marks him as one of the novel's contented schemers. He matters because his small triumph of domestic engineering shows how Wodehouse characters happily rearrange their lives to dodge the things they dread.

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Character groups

Hotel regulars and family
Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

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Aftermath
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Archie Moffam
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IV: Work Wanted
Offers Archie a job posing for a magazine cover at the Pen-and-Ink Club.
V: Strange Experience of an Artist’s Model
The artist directing Archie's pose, critical of Archie's stamina, and later absent from the studio, leaving Archie stranded.
VI: The Bomb
Mentioned as the owner of the barrel that caused the explosion, seeking quick results.
Mr. Roscoe Sherriff Has an Idea
Mentioned as mourning his lost home brew and suspending sittings for the magazine cover.
The Wigmore Venus
The artist friend whose studio Archie visits; he is absent, having left the studio open, and his painting is taken by Archie.
A Tale of a Grandfather
Referred to as an artist friend of Archie who also disliked the painting and told his fiancée it was stolen.

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