# Jerry Moore — Short Fiction character guide

> Jerry Moore in Short Fiction by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Jerry Moore, Jerry, Mr. Moore, Geraldine

**First appearance:** 0000-when-papa-swore-in-hindustani

## Snapshot

A gentle, deafish bachelor whose quiet garden paradise is upended when he falls in love, threatening his lodger Gentleman's comfortable arrangement.

## Who they are

Jerry Moore is a simple, contented bachelor who lives alone in a desirable house, pottering among his flowers and fowls and listening to his friend Gentleman hold forth on Life. He takes everything Gentleman says as gospel, but his growing preoccupation with Woman signals a change that could end the bachelor idyll. His innocent devotion and the looming threat of a blushing bride make him the unwitting engine of the story's central tension.

## In the story

### [By Advice of Counsel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/chapters/by-advice-of-counsel)

A simple, wealthy bachelor with partial deafness who takes in Gentleman Bailey and the waiter (Roach). He falls in love with Jane Tuxton, threatening the drifters' comfortable life.

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