History WMG / JeevesAndWooster

In reality, he's a twisted version of [[ThePollyanna The Pollyanna]]. His cheerful demeanor is due to some serious repression, resulting from a lifetime of mistreatment by his friends and relatives. The reason he goes along with whatever his aunts/the Drones/Jeeves say is that, if he examines his own desires too closely, his wall of repression will collapse and he'll end up going on a [[RagingRampageOfRevenge murderous]] [[UnstoppableRage rampage]]. In all likelihood, his apparent stupidity is also a front to protect him from the reality that everyone he knows is a [[JerkAss Jerk Ass]]. This explains why someone as "mentally negligible" as Bertie is such a brilliant writer.

In reality, he's a twisted version of [[ThePollyanna The Pollyanna]]. His cheerful demeanor is due to some serious repression, resulting from a lifetime of mistreatment by his friends and relatives. The reason he goes along with whatever his aunts/the Drones/Jeeves say is that, if he examines his own desires too closely, his wall of repression will collapse and he'll end up going on a [[GottaKillThemAll murderous]] [[UnstoppableRage rampage]]. In all likelihood, his apparent stupidity is also a front to protect him from the reality that everyone he knows is a [[JerkAss Jerk Ass]]. This explains why someone as "mentally negligible" as Bertie is such a brilliant writer.

This all begs the question, who is Reggie's mother? One of Bertie's harem?

Let's run through the symptoms. ExtremeDoormat, unambitious, zero confidence in his own abilities, openly lets his valet run his life for him. (His reasoning being that, after all, Jeeves is better at it, right?) Afraid of what will happen [[LivingEmotionalCrutch if he ever loses Jeeves]]. Constantly seeks sympathy. Stays at the houses of people who can take care of him when Jeeves isn't around. In the first story, when he gets to New York, he even goes around the city looking for someone to help him, despite not knowing anyone, and proceeds to "put [him]self unreservedly into the hands" of some random bartender.

Let's run through the symptoms. ExtremeDoormat, unambitious, zero confidence in his own abilities, openly lets his valet run his life for him. (His reasoning being that, after all, Jeeves is better at it, right?) Afraid of what will happen [[LivingEmotionalCrutch if he ever loses Jeeves]]. Constantly seeks sympathy. Stays at the houses of people who can take care of him when Jeeves isn't around. In the first story, when he gets to New York, he even goes around looking for someone to help him and then "put[s] [him]self unreservedly into the hands" of some random bartender.

Let's run through the symptoms. ExtremeDoormat, unambitious, zero confidence in his own abilities, openly lets his valet run his life for him. (His reasoning being that, after all, Jeeves is better at it, right?) Afraid of what will happen [[LivingEmotionalCrutch if he ever loses Jeeves]]. Constantly seeks sympathy.

The only reason he hasn't been scooped up and tossed into "some sort of a home" is that [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Jeeves]] keeps his reputation up and takes care of him.

Seriously, this isn't that much of a stretch; it's probably canon. [[CloudCuckoolander What sane person would behave himself in that manner?]]

The very first. He uses his RichIdiotWithNoDayJob personality to hide the fact that he goes out at night to catch criminals. Jeeves is, of course, the forerunner of Alfred.

The very first. He uses his RichIdiotWithNoDayJob personality to hide the fact that he goes out at night to catch criminals, and he wrote the books as a further way of ObfuscatingStupidity. Jeeves is, of course, the forerunner of Alfred.

Let's run through the symptoms. ExtremeDoormat, unambitious, zero confidence in his own abilities, openly lets his valet run his life for him (because, after all, Jeeves is better at it). Afraid of what will happen [[LivingEmotionalCrutch if he ever loses Jeeves]]. Constantly seeks sympathy.

They have the exact same personality, what?[[hottip:*: The [[WatsonianVsDoylist Doylist]] reason being, of course, that Reggie was a ''prototype'' for Bertie, but never mind that.]] And Reggie = Reginald = Reginald Jeeves! Obviously, Bertie named his son after his best friend.

* Until he becomes so wearied with the act that he completely sheds his cheerful persona, [[Main/House moves to America, and becomes a brilliant, JerkAss, diagnostician]].

In reality, he's a twisted version of [[ThePollyanna The Pollyanna]]. His cheerful demeanor is due to some serious repression, resulting from a lifetime of mistreatment by his friends and relatives. The reason he goes along with whatever his aunts/the Drones/Jeeves say is that, if he examines his own desires too closely, his wall of repression will collapse and he’ll end up going on a [[GottaKillThemAll murderous]] [[UnstoppableRage rampage]]. In all likelihood, his apparent stupidity is also a front to protect him from the reality that everyone he knows is a [[JerkAss Jerk Ass]]. This explains why someone as "mentally negligible" as Bertie is such a brilliant writer.
* Until he becomes so wearied with the act that he completely sheds his cheerful persona, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/House moves to America, and becomes a brilliant, JerkAss, diagnostician]].

What other reason would Jeeves benefit from serving Bertram Wooster? It's obvious he has attitude for XanatosGambit (pretty much every story is solved thanks to Jeeve's pulling one of this behind Bertie's and the reader's) and he has admitted that has accepted the fact he will have no other job after this one... one has to wonder who manages Bertie's finances...

[[WMG: Bertie isn’t as nice as he seems.]]

In reality, he’s a twisted version of [[ThePollyanna The Pollyanna]]. His cheerful demeanor is due to some serious repression, resulting from a lifetime of mistreatment by his friends and relatives. The reason he goes along with whatever his aunts/the Drones/Jeeves say is that, if he examines his own desires too closely, his wall of repression will collapse and he’ll end up going on a [[GottaKillThemAll murderous]] [[UnstoppableRage rampage]]. In all likelihood, his apparent stupidity is also a front to protect him from the reality that everyone he knows is a [[JerkAss Jerk Ass]]. This explains why someone as “mentally negligible” as Bertie is such a brilliant writer.