Not only do I agree with Raja and Bruce, the previous commenters, about the egregious mistakes they mention in this essay; Mr. Smith doesn't even begin to understand Wodehouse's attitude toward his characters. It's clear that Wodehouse was a feminist, for instance, as Elin Woodger Murphy proved in her brilliant paper at the 2015 convention of The Wodehouse Society. His fiction is full of self-reliant young women, forced by circumstances to earn their livings, and their competence and pluck is described with obvious approval. Deeper reading will show many working-class heroes and heroines and not a few nasty dukes, viscounts, and baronets. Struggling young authors are always praised. Not all his characters live in vast estates or have servants. The popularity of Wodehouse's stories about Bertie Wooster and about Lord Emsworth—deserved, since his comic style and farcical plotting are shown to great effect there—do not fully represent the majority of his characters or his own attitudes.