Why did Jack allow Algernon to masquerade as Ernest, his younger brother?
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Cecily and Gwendolen have a genteel stand-off over which of them has a prior claim on 'Ernest'. Jack and Algernon vie to be christened Ernest. Eventually, Jack discovers that his parents were Lady Bracknell's sister and brother-in-law and that he is, in fact, Algernon's older brother, called Ernest
.The fictional brother is Jack's alibi, his excuse for disappearing from Hertfordshire and going off to London to escape his responsibilities and indulge in exactly the sort of behavior he pretends to disapprove of in his brother. ... Jack uses his alter-ego Ernest to keep his honorable image intact.
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