#extricating young gussie

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

Have you read "Extricating Young Gussie" by P.G. Wodehouse?

Yes

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I've never heard of this

Voting ended onMar 20, 2024

"Extricating Young Gussie" is available to read here

[themirokai]

Are y’all reading @lettersregardingjeeves ? Can we talk about how adorable the end of Extricating Young Gussie is?

I want nothing more than for Joe and Julia to have a wildly successful revival of their show and unending happiness.

I missed Jeeves in this story but it was still delightful.

[eirinstiva]

Love is in the air!

I received the last letter of my friend Bertie and his adventure in New York looking for his cousin Gussie. Love strikes back and wins 2-0 against Aunt Agatha and Bertie

I was surprised too, Bertie... Love is in the air and there's nothing we can do but enjoy it

“Of course I was fond of you. Why did I let you have all the fat in ‘Fun in a Teashop’? Why did I hang about upstage while you sang ‘Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay’? Do you remember my giving you a bag of buns when we were on the road at Bristol?” “Yes, but⁠—” “Do you remember my giving you the ham sandwiches at Portsmouth?” “Joe!” “Do you remember my giving you a seed-cake at Birmingham? What did you think all that meant, if not that I loved you? 

Mr. Danby's love language: food, mostly. He's a keeper!

Anyways, beautiful story, everywone is happy except poor Bertie, who has to deal with Aunt Agatha's anger. Good luck with that, old chap!

[uozlulu]

Finished "Extricating Young Gussie" via Letters Regarding Jeeves

spoilers below

It's interesting to have one of these stories where Jeeves is barely present. It gives us a lot of insight into Bertie and also kind of shows why Jeeves will take on a bigger role in later stories.

Bertie is a good mix of put upon and willing to help.

I enjoyed how Bertie thought he was bringing in the big guns by inviting Julia to intervene and it ended up becoming kind of a canon in a way Bertie didn't anticipate

The ending made me lol

I also like how the descriptions of the vaudeville scene gives you an idea that Gussie's performance was kind of like when your high school puts on their Mr. High School competition

Still kind of want to see Agatha's reaction to how this all turned out even though that's not necessary to the story

[eirinstiva]

So... Bertie travelled for at least five days to America, looking for his cousin just because his aunt Agatha told him. That woman is scary as fuck...

[allieinarden]

Happy 134th birthday, P.G. Wodehouse (October 15th)!

And happy 100th birthday, Jeeves and Wooster (September 15th)!

Have their first published short story!