Inside the story
Meet John Worthing
John Worthing is a respectable young country gentleman and justice of the peace who serves as guardian to Cecily Cardew. He maintains a country identity as Jack while visiting town as Ernest, a fictional younger brother, and courts Gwendolen Fairfax.
On the page
A well-groomed English gentleman in his late twenties to early thirties, clean-shaven or lightly whiskered, with neatly parted hair; impeccably dressed in fashionable 1890s town attire — frock coat or morning coat, high starched collar, cravat, waistcoat, and gloves — and at one point appears in full deep mourning black complete with crape hatband.
