# Something New — Character guide

> Key figures in Something New by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Ashe Marson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/ashe_marson.md): Ashe Marson drifts through London until Joan Valentine's lecture on enterprise shames him into pursuing a five-thousand-dollar reward for a stolen scarab at Blandings Castle. He possesses that rare quality of 'rubber' — 
- [Freddie Threepwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/freddie_threepwood.md): The Honorable Freddie Threepwood has spent his life exploding bombs under his father's nose — expelled from Eton, sent down from Oxford, and now engaged to the millionaire's daughter Aline Peters. His racing debts and sh
- [Joan Valentine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/joan_valentine.md): Joan Valentine is a working girl in London who stirs Ashe Marson out of his sloth with a lecture on enterprise — and immediately regrets it when he turns up as her competitor for the same scarab reward. She insists on a 
- [Aline Peters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/aline_peters.md): Aline Peters is the beautiful, rich daughter of J. Preston Peters, newly engaged to the Honorable Freddie Threepwood — a match that satisfies both families but leaves her pining for her father's health. She refuses to ea
- [Rupert Baxter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/rupert_baxter.md): Rupert Baxter is the Efficient Baxter, a secretary whose collector's passion for Lord Emsworth's curios exceeds even the owner's, and who regards the museum as his personal domain. When he suspects Ashe Marson of plottin
- [J. Preston Peters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/j_preston_peters.md): J. Preston Peters is a self-made American millionaire whose weak digestion and insomnia make him a demanding guest at Blandings Castle. He has offered a five-thousand-dollar reward for the return of a scarab stolen from 
- [George Emerson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/george_emerson.md): George Emerson moves through Blandings as a self-assured presence, forever hovering near Aline Peters and treating her engagement to Freddie as an obvious mistake. His quiet, conquering certainty — he contemplates the la
- [Lord Emsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/lord_emsworth.md): Lord Emsworth belongs to the school of hosts who prefer to be left alone to amuse themselves, pottering about the garden in an old coat while his guests grumble on the terraces. His placid detachment — he cannot imagine 
- [Beach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/beach.md): Beach presides over Blandings Castle with the grave courtesy expected of a butler in an earl's household, navigating the whims of his absent-minded master and the eccentricities of guests. His quiet, watchful presence ma
- [R. Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/r_jones.md): R. Jones is the fattest man in his postal district, a wheezing, jelly-like bookmaker who buys and sells curios, lends money, and cultivates wealthy young men with large purses and small foreheads. His joviality with chan
- [Mr. Ferris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/mr_ferris.md): A servant or employee at Blandings, involved in minor plot points.

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