# Pots O'Money Owen Bentley — Short Fiction character guide

> Pots O'Money Owen Bentley in Short Fiction by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Owen, Pots

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

## Snapshot

A former cricketer turned bank clerk, sweating through a Victorian father's interview with the stage-fright of a man facing his own doom.

## Who they are

Owen Bentley, once a Middlesex batsman briefly recruited for a musical-comedy chorus, now earns under two hundred pounds at the London and Suburban Bank and wants to marry Audrey Sheppherd. Her father, a heavy father out of a three-volume novel, receives him with bleak disapproval, and Owen endures it with the same sinking sensation he knew on stage. His modest prospects and one influential uncle set up a courtship comedy about money, pride, and the arithmetic of consent.

## In the story

### [Pots O'Money](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/chapters/pots-o-money)

Owen is the protagonist, a bank clerk and former actor who is denied permission to marry Audrey due to his low income. He later discovers his unpublished dramatization of 'White Roses' has been stolen by the author.

### [The Making of Mac's](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_42_se/chapters/the-making-of-mac-s)

Referred to as 'Andy' in the story, the son of Mr. MacFarland, whose stern demeanor and confrontation with a patron change the restaurant's fortunes.

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