The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy

"The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy"
Short story by P. G. Wodehouse
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Comedy
Publication
PublisherThe Strand Magazine (UK)
Liberty (US)
Media typePrint (Magazine)
Publication dateApril 1926
Chronology
SeriesJeeves
 
Jeeves and the Impending Doom
 
Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit

"The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in April 1926, and in Liberty in the United States that same month. The story was also included as the second story in the 1930 collection Very Good, Jeeves.[1]

In the story, Bertie tries to help his friend, Oliver "Sippy" Sipperley, an editor of a light society magazine who is intimidated by his old school head master into publishing boring essays. Sippy is also in love with the poet Gwendolen Moon but is afraid to confess his feelings.

  1. ^ Cawthorne (2013), p. 71.