# Mike Jackson — Leave It to Psmith character guide

> Mike Jackson in Leave It to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mike, the Jackson

**First appearance:** 0000-i-dark-plottings-at-blandings-castle

## Snapshot

Phyllis's beloved, a young man with a cricket background and a fish-market past, whose engagement sets the novel's romantic stakes.

## Who they are

Mike Jackson is the reason Phyllis Jackson is at the centre of the plot's financial anxieties, and the reason Psmith — his old friend and former Billingsgate colleague — has any business at Blandings at all. His engagement to Phyllis is the quiet fact against which the castle's scheming is measured, and Psmith's loyalty to him explains why a fish-slinger turned impostor would bother with a stolen necklace. He never appears on stage, but his name is the password that opens doors and the standard by which the novel's rogues are judged.

## In the story

### [Enter Psmith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/chapters/ii-enter-psmith)

Meets Psmith outside Mrs. Jackson's house; explains his wife is hosting a private tea.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/chapters/i)

Meets Psmith on the street, explains his wife is hosting a tea, and discusses Psmith's advertisement.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/chapters/ii)

Mentioned as Psmith's boyhood chum and Phyllis's husband.

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