# Psmith in the City — Character guide

> Key figures in Psmith in the City by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Psmith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/psmith.md): Psmith arrives at the New Asiatic Bank with an eyeglass, an unshakeable drawl, and a genius for turning dull routine into comedy. Beneath the languid pose lies a patient strategist: he studies Manchester United trivia fo
- [Mike Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/mike_jackson.md): Mike enters the bank world with his cricket triumphs behind him and his father's financial troubles pushing him into a clerk's stool he never wanted. Painfully self-conscious in company, he upsets a water jug into a jam 
- [Mr. Bickersdyke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/mr_bickersdyke.md): Mr. Bickersdyke presides over the New Asiatic Bank with the gravity of a man who expects to be somebody in politics, and belongs to the Senior Conservative Club chiefly for its excellent cuisine. He has no idea that a ta
- [Mr. Waller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/mr_waller.md): Mr. Waller is the genial host whose dinner party dissolves into a family row over Women's Suffrage, and the cashier whose years of habit keep him shovelling money to customers while his mind sits at a sick child's bedsid
- [Rossiter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/rossiter.md): Mr. Rossiter patrols the postage desk with a watchdog's zeal, forever catching Psmith mid-conversation and warning that the bank pays him to work, not to talk about football. Psmith, undeterred, deduces from a single sig
- [Mr. Gregory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/mr_gregory.md): A bank clerk who is often irritated by Psmith's antics.
- [Bristow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/bristow.md): A clerk at the bank who interacts with Mike and Psmith.
- [Prebble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/prebble.md): A clerk at the bank, part of the office staff.
- [Bannister](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/bannister.md): A clerk at the bank, often mentioned in the office.
- [Joe Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/joe_jackson.md): Mike's older brother, a professional cricketer.
- [Mr. Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/mr_jackson.md): Mike's father, who sends him to work at the bank.
- [Bill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/bill.md): A young boy who works as a messenger at the bank.
- [William](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/william_willis.md): A clerk or employee at the bank.
- [Mr. Richards](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/mr_richards.md): A clerk at the bank.
- [Harold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/harold_lauder.md): A singer mentioned in the story.
- [Father](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/father.md): Mike's father, referred to in dialogue.
- [Sir John Morrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/sir_john_morrison.md): A political figure mentioned in the story.
- [Comrade Jellicoe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/psmith_in_the_city_se/characters/comrade_jellicoe.md): A clerk at the bank.

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