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Re: What Does Jeeves Symbolize?

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm wow, great question. For me I think it's about propriety: always speaking and acting and dressing just so, doing everything properly/appropriately/competently, and making it look effortless & magical without ever revealing your methods. He's incredibly boxed-in/constrained by his class & station in life, but makes the best of it and pulls it off gracefully. You could argue it's almost a metaphor for being a woman, now that I think of it. So that's why I think I've enjoyed writing stories about him overcoming all these rules of propriety that are stifling & repressing him. It's wish fulfillment. I think myself and everyone else who feels like they're forced to conform to standards of "conventional respectability" should get to transgress them in some way at least once in a while.

Re: What Does Jeeves Symbolize?

[(Anonymous)]

Relatedly, his relationship with Bertie also has its own kind of symbolism for me. Growing up I always had crushes on teachers and other authority figures, and I still find imbalanced power dynamics/abuse of authority to be really hot. The idea is basically, if someone has a lot to lose by pursuing a person who's off-limits, but then goes ahead and does it anyway, they must really, really want to, and that kind of uncontrollable desire is very captivating. Jeeves and Bertie have so much working against them ever getting together that they have to really, really want each other in order for it to happen.