Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Money In the Bank by PG Wodehouse


 Money in the bank is another PG Wodehouse novel, but why else would you pick his novels except to read another of his stories. You don’t read a PG Wodehouse novel to, get shocked, learn the miseries of life, understand the nuances of crime detection, or get your eyes moist after reading a tragic love story. You read the master’s writings to feel light, to be entertained, to laugh at the hypocrisies of human behaviour, etc. 


Money in the Bank contains all the familiar plots


A stowed away family treasure by a forgetful Lord Uffenham..


Mrs Molly and her husband.  can Soapy be left out? He is there too.


A castle that welcomes impostors with open arms.


A girl who is in love with an insecure guy or as Lord Uffenham puts it “pestilential poop of a pop-eyed plasterer” 


A bungling young attorney who throws rock cakes into rank-strangers offices only because he doesn’t want to offend his caretaker. He later becomes an imposter in Shipley Hall to be with the girl he is enamoured with


Mrs Cork. You have to read the novel to know her.


Mr Trumper who worships Mrs Cork


The Ugubus tribe, who, except for an occasional missionary at Christmas, live entirely on fruits and vegetables.


If that doesn’t make sense to you, it’s a very good reason why you should read “Money in the Bank “ by PG Wodehouse. There are little chances it will make sense to you after reading. You don’t read a PGW novel to make sense, but you read it to have a good laugh , enjoy the ridiculing of fads and the elite. 


You read his novels to read some hilariously funny statements and phrases. I quote below a couple from this novel 


Alexander Twist had never been the man easily to be got better of in a business transaction. It was precisely this keen commercial sense of his which had rendered spacious cupboards, into which to withdraw from exasperated callers, so necessary to his well being.


Her uncle’s odious words insisted on coming to her mind “ You wouldn’t give that poop, Lionel Green, a second thought,” Lord Uffenham said in that uncouth way of his “ if he hadn’t the sort of tailor’s dummy good looks that women seem to be incapable of seeing 


Happy Reading!!! May your stomach ache due to laughing.





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