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  • Unintentionally Sympathetic: Bertie is depicted as a vain and incompetent Upper-Class Twit who bites off more than he can chew when he tries to help his friends and relatives solve their various issues, even though they had actually wanted to ask Jeeves for help. When Bertie's advice inevitable makes things worse, the people he attempted to help blames him for the disaster and harshly chews him out for it (his Aunt even tells him to kill himself for driving her chef to quit). The book seems to treat their behaviour as a justified response to Bertie's poorly thought-out interference, and the story ends with Bertie acknowledging Jeeves's superiority and vows to let the valet do what he does best the next time. Many readers find that the book's treatment of Bertie is disproportionately cruel, especially since he means no harm, and that his friends and family never face consequences for their flaws that instigated the problems Bertie needed to solve in the first place.

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