Explain how Wodehouse is successful in creating colourful characters like Lord Emsworth and Angus in "The Custody of the Pumpkin." From Wodehouse's...

In P.G. Wodehouse's "The Custody of the Pumpkin" we find a
recurring topic in the Wodehouse's treatment of the filial relationships between
aristocratic fathers and their sons.

This tendency is to
portray them as foils of each other, and as each other's arch-enemies to an extent. This
is because Wodehouse usually awards the elder aristocrats the same characteristics:
Absent-minded, quirky, not very bright, too much time in their hands, too much money to
spend, and a lot of power and titles.

However, the younger
aristocrats fare differently. They, as a reflection of their nay-doer rich parents will
also share the traits of not being too bright nor creative. However, Wodehouse goes one
step further by showing them as lazy drone-types who spend their lives in limbo
attending social events, having fun at the men's social club, and living off the riches
of their families.

This is the exact case with Lord
Emsworth and his 26 year old bachelor son, Freddie,
who

[..] with
the passage of the years that youth had become more and more of a problem to an anxious
father.  The Earl of Emsworth, like so many of Britain's
aristocracy, had but
little use for the Younger Son.
And Freddie Threepwood was a particularly
trying
younger
son.

In true Wodehouse
fashion, the description of what Freddie means to his father is quite funny. It
basically says that the father has tried to marry off Freddie to an heiress in order to
basically find him "something to do". Moreover, Freddie is so useless that his father
actually does better without his company. He is not that son of whom every father boasts
about as the future of the family. Not at all. Freddie is literally a waster and his
father is the first to acknowledge it as well as the rest of the family. This is because
Freddie would always get in trouble, runs debts, and causes all kinds of crazy mischief
when he visits London

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There seemed, in the opinion of his nearest and
dearest, to be no way of coping with the boy. If he was allowed to live in London he
piled up debts and got into mischief; and when hauled back home to Blandings he moped
broodingly. It was possibly the fact that his demeanor at this moment was so
mysteriously jaunty, his bearing so inexplicably free from the crushed misery with
which
he usually mooned about the place that induced Lord
Emsworth
to keep a telescopic eye on him. Some
inner voice whispered to him that
Freddie was up
to no good and would bear
watching.

So Freddie and his
father do not have a good relationship at all. It is all because Lord Emsworth sees his
son as a waste of time and money, and because Freddie really does not do much to change
that opinion of him at all.