Bertie Wooster

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is the foppish, dim-witted, and very wealthy co-protagonist of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories. A British aristocrat and member of the "idle rich", he always appears alongside his highly intelligent "gentleman's personal gentleman" Jeeves, whose genius manages to extract Bertie or one of his friends from numerous awkward or difficult situations.

Romance

Though he never marries, and is wholly averse to the idea, he nevertheless becomes engaged to a series of girls including Madeline Bassett, Honoria Glossop, Pauline Stoker, and Lady Florence Craye. Though he expresses a desire to marry Lady Florence in Jeeves Takes Charge, in the later stories and novels, whenever he becomes engaged, he regards it as a dire situation from which Jeeves must extricate him.

Related Topics:
Madeline Bassett - Honoria Glossop - Florence Craye

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Aunt Agatha is of the opinion that Bertie, a burden to society in his present state, must marry; furthermore, he must marry a girl capable of moulding his personality and compensating for his many defects. Although interestingly, in the short story Jeeves Takes Charge, Lady Florence Craye tells Bertie that his Aunt Agatha "...called you a spineless invertebrate and advised me strongly not to marry you.". This prospect mortifies Bertie, not least because it would mean he and Jeeves would part ways.

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