Something New · Character

George Emerson

A confident, patronizing suitor who has known Aline since childhood and now wants her to abandon Freddie and marry him instead.

supporting

Also known as George, Emerson, young Emerson

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An American friend Freddie met the previous night and invited to Blandings Castle.

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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 landscape with a conqueror's eye — makes him a serpentine threat in the eyes of the watchful Baxter. His insistence that Aline admit her doubts about Freddie plants the first seeds of the engagement's fragility, making him the quiet engine of romantic disruption in the novel's early arc.

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Character Web

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Relationship types

Romantic
Friendship
Other

Character groups

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Narrative arc

Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

Setup
Escalation
Breaking point

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Relationships

Aline Peters
romantic · positive
They are lovers, with Aline secretly engaged to George despite her father's disapproval. How this plays out →
Freddie Threepwood
friendship · positive
Freddie Threepwood
friendship · positive
Aline Peters
romantic · positive
They are lovers, with Aline secretly engaged to George despite her father's disapproval. How this plays out →
Aline Peters
romantic · positive
They are lovers, with Aline secretly engaged to George despite her father's disapproval. How this plays out →
Freddie Threepwood
friendship · positive

Aline Peters
They are lovers, with Aline secretly engaged to George despite her father's disapproval.
Freddie Threepwood
Freddie supports George as his sister's fiancé and helps him win over their father.
Freddie Threepwood
Freddie supports George as his sister's fiancé and helps him win over their father.
Aline Peters
They are lovers, with Aline secretly engaged to George despite her father's disapproval.
Aline Peters
They are lovers, with Aline secretly engaged to George despite her father's disapproval.
Freddie Threepwood
Freddie supports George as his sister's fiancé and helps him win over their father.

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In the story

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Chapter II
An American friend Freddie met the previous night and invited to Blandings Castle.
III
George dines with Aline and presses his romantic suit, but she refuses him, citing her engagement to Freddie.
VII
A superman who openly urges Aline to leave Freddie and marry him; his lack of tact annoys her.
Chapter VIII
George is determined to rescue Aline from starvation by smuggling food to her room late at night, having procured supplies from Market Blandings.
Chapter XI
Walks on the terrace with an unlighted cigar, showing signs of mental unrest.

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