# George Emerson — Something New character guide

> George Emerson in Something New by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** George, Emerson, young Emerson

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Snapshot

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

## Who they are

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.

## Relationships

### [Aline Peters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/aline_peters)

_romantic_

They are lovers, with Aline secretly engaged to George despite her father's disapproval.

### [Freddie Threepwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/freddie_threepwood)

_friendship_

Freddie supports George as his sister's fiancé and helps him win over their father.

### [Freddie Threepwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/freddie_threepwood)

_friendship_

Freddie supports George as his sister's fiancé and helps him win over their father.

### [Aline Peters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/aline_peters)

_romantic_

They are lovers, with Aline secretly engaged to George despite her father's disapproval.

### [Aline Peters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/aline_peters)

_romantic_

They are lovers, with Aline secretly engaged to George despite her father's disapproval.

### [Freddie Threepwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/characters/freddie_threepwood)

_friendship_

Freddie supports George as his sister's fiancé and helps him win over their father.

## In the story

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/ii)

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

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/iii)

George dines with Aline and presses his romantic suit, but she refuses him, citing her engagement to Freddie.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/vii)

A superman who openly urges Aline to leave Freddie and marry him; his lack of tact annoys her.

### [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/something_new_se/chapters/xi)

Walks on the terrace with an unlighted cigar, showing signs of mental unrest.

## Links

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