# Sippy — Jeeves Stories character guide

> Sippy in Jeeves Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** poor old Sippy, old Sippy, Old Sippy

**First appearance:** 0024-the-inferiority-complex-of-old-sippy

## Snapshot

A friend of Bertie's whose inferiority complex and Cambridge examination troubles require Jeeves's most audacious scheme to resolve.

## Who they are

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 from an inferiority complex that makes him doubt his own abilities, and his plight is serious enough that Jeeves sees no other way out. He matters because his dilemma showcases Jeeves's willingness to bend propriety to breaking point, and because Bertie's willingness to risk arrest for a friend reveals the loyalty beneath the flippancy.

## In the story

### [Without the Option](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/without-the-option)

Sentenced to thirty days in prison for assaulting a police officer; originally supposed to visit the Pringles.

### [The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/jeeves_stories_se/chapters/the-inferiority-complex-of-old-sippy)

Editor of The Mayfair Gazette; in love with Miss Gwendolen Moon, feels inferior due to his past and his old head master Mr. Waterbury.

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