# Uncle Donald — The Adventures of Sally character guide

> Uncle Donald in The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Donald, XV Uncle Donald

**First appearance:** 0043-xv-uncle-donald-speaks-his-mind

## Snapshot

A blustering English patriarch who thunders about Family duty, arranged marriages, and the disgrace of nephews chasing American girls.

## Who they are

Uncle Donald is the formidable head of the family who lectures Bruce Carmyle against marrying an American acquaintance met on a ship, proposing instead a suitable Bassington-Bassington daughter. His outrage at defiance is comic and impotent, and his parting threat to cut his nephew in Piccadilly collapses into a request for the name of a good whisky. He embodies the stuffy English propriety against which the novel's younger generation quietly rebels.

## In the story

### [IV: Ginger in Dangerous Mood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventures_of_sally_se/chapters/iv-ginger-in-dangerous-mood)

The 'managing director' of the Family, whose dinner invitation is a royal command that Ginger resents.

### [XII: Some Letters for Ginger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventures_of_sally_se/chapters/xii-some-letters-for-ginger)

Mentioned as part of Carmyle's family, with a moustache that Sally finds deliberate.

### [XV: Uncle Donald Speaks His Mind](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_adventures_of_sally_se/chapters/xv-uncle-donald-speaks-his-mind)

Confronts Bruce, expressing family disapproval and attempting to dissuade him from pursuing Sally.

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