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Wodehouse's upperclass give rise to plot complications.
Relatives, especially aunts and uncles, are commonly depicted with an exaggerated
power to help or impede marriage or financial prospects, or simply to make life
miserable. Friends are often more a trouble than a comfort in Wodehouse stories: the
main character is typically being placed in a most painful situation just to please a
friend. Antagonists (particularly rivals in love) are frequently terrifying, and just as
often get their come-uppance in a delicious fashion.
Although his plots are on the surface formulaic, Wodehouse's genius lies in the
tangled layers of comedic complications that the characters must endure to reach the
invariable happy ending. Typically, a relative or friend makes some demand that
forces a character into a bizarre situation that seems impossible to recover from, only
to resolve itself in a clever and satisfying finale. The layers pile up thickly in the