# Jeeves Stories — Character guide

> Key figures in Jeeves Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Jeeves](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/jeeves.md): Jeeves presides over Bertie's wardrobe, morning tea, and tangled love life with the same unflappable courtesy, offering solutions in the tone of a man discussing the weather. His quiet war with Bertie over purple socks a
- [Bertie Wooster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/bertie_wooster.md): Bertie narrates his own misadventures with breezy slang and a fatal weakness for helping friends in love, which repeatedly drags him into engagements, house parties, and police stations. He bristles at Jeeves's quiet sup
- [Bingo Little](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/bingo_little.md): Bingo tumbles into love roughly once a fortnight, each time convinced it is destiny and each time requiring Bertie's diplomatic services with a stingy uncle or disapproving relative. His enthusiasms are as sincere as the
- [Aunt Agatha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/aunt_agatha.md): Five-foot-nine of eagle eye and grey hair, Aunt Agatha can reduce Bertie to jelly with a single glance and has done so since his childhood. She regards him as a feckless wastrel in need of molding and marriage, and her l
- [Gussie Mannering-Phipps](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/gussie_mannering_phipps.md): Gussie is the sort of pal who turns up needing a steady hand, whether he is tongue-tied before a girl or tangled in a scheme gone sideways. His anxieties and good intentions make him easy prey for the complications that 
- [Sir Roderick Glossop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/sir_roderick_glossop.md): Sir Roderick regards Bertie with the clinical interest of a man diagnosing a fascinating case, a habit that grows more awkward as their families entangle. His eminence in nervous disorders and his daughter Honoria's refo
- [Honoria Glossop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/honoria_glossop.md): Honoria Glossop is the sort of forceful, purposeful woman who, once engaged to Bertie, immediately sets about reorganising his life—beginning with the dismissal of Jeeves. Her father, the nerve specialist Sir Roderick, i
- [Rocky Todd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/rocky_todd.md): Rocky Todd is a poet of the quiet, nature-loving variety who has arranged his life in the country precisely to avoid the intrusions of relatives and society. His aunt, however, has other plans, and her determination to d
- [Cyril Bassington-Bassington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/cyril_bassington_bassington.md): Cyril Bassington-Bassington is a young man of imposing pomposity who has decided to grace the theatrical profession with his presence, much to the horror of his uncle, a bishop. His uncle's insistence that he abandon the
- [Claude and Eustace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/claude_and_eustace.md): Claude and Eustace are a matched pair of cheerful scroungers whose Oxford careers seem to consist chiefly of extracting money and hospitality from their elder cousin Bertie. They are candidates for a college club called 
- [Biffy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/biffy.md): Charles Edward Biffen—Biffy to his friends—is a man so vague that he cannot reliably remember whether his lost love's father ran a milk-walk or a boot-shop, or indeed the name of the hotel where she was staying. He met M
- [Sippy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/sippy.md): Sippy—Mr. Sipperley—is a Cambridge man whose anxieties have landed him in a predicament requiring Bertie's intervention and Jeeves's most improbable solution: Bertie impersonating Sippy at Cambridge. His troubles stem fr
- [Bicky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/bicky.md): A woolen-headed old pal of Bertie's whose broken heart and hopeless vagueness turn a simple errand into a comedy of errors.
- [Corky](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/corky.md): An artist friend of Bertie's whose dependence on a quick-tempered aunt makes one reckless lark spiral into a full-blown crisis.
- [Freddie Bullivant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/freddie_bullivant.md): A good-hearted polo player and snooker-pool coming man, hopeless in a romantic crisis and helpless without Bertie's schemes.
- [Florence Craye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/florence_craye.md): A formidable intellectual who sets out to improve Bertie's mind, a project that reliably produces more friction than philosophy.
- [Aunt Dahlia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/aunt_dahlia.md): Bertie's more forgiving aunt, a magazine proprietor with a hearty appetite and a habit of dragging Bertie into her schemes.
- [Steggles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/steggies.md): Steggles moves through Bertie's world as the sort of fellow whose bright ideas about horses and wagers tend to land other people in hot water. His schemes appeal to Bertie's weakness for easy money and his reluctance to 
- [Uncle Willoughby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/uncle_willoughby.md): Uncle Willoughby holds the purse strings that keep Bertie in socks and club dinners, which makes his literary ambitions a matter of urgent family concern. His manuscript, packed with indiscreet recollections of relatives
- [Old Heppenstall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/old_heppenstall.md): A clergyman who participates in the great sermon handicap.
- [Waterbury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/waterbury.md): A man involved in a romantic mix-up with Bertie's friends.
- [Duke of Chiswick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/duke_of_chiswick.md): A duke who appears in the great sermon handicap story.
- [Tuppy Glossop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/tuppy_glossop.md): Sir Roderick's nephew, a friend of Bertie's.
- [Miss Hemmingway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/miss_hemmingway.md): A woman who appears in a story about Bertie's friends.
- [Mary Burgess](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/mary_burgess.md): A woman who appears in a story about Bertie's friends.
- [Ray Denison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/characters/ray_denison.md): A character who appears in a story about Bertie.

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