# Mr. Mifflin — Short Fiction character guide

> Mr. Mifflin in Short Fiction by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mifflin, The Mifflin

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

## Snapshot

The stick-like actor whose wooden performances in George's touring company drive a leading lady to withhold cues and a playwright to pour out his troubles.

## Who they are

Mifflin belongs to the funereal little theatrical troupe whose disasters George carries with him to Marvis Bay, where he unburdens himself to the sympathetic Mary Vaughan. He is less a man than a running grievance — stiff, cue-missing, and hopeless enough that his name becomes shorthand for everything wrong with the production. His inadequacy gives George something to complain about, and complaining is how George first draws close to Mary, so the wooden actor quietly sets the romance in motion.

## Relationships

### [George Barnert Callender](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/characters/george_barnert_callender)

_professional_

George Barnert Callender and Mr. Mifflin interact frequently in a work or business context.

### [George Barnert Callender](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/characters/george_barnert_callender)

_professional_

George Barnert Callender and Mr. Mifflin interact frequently in a work or business context.

### [George Barnert Callender](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/characters/george_barnert_callender)

_professional_

George Barnert Callender and Mr. Mifflin interact frequently in a work or business context.

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