Fan Casting Jake Weston in The Paradise Problem

As the youngest boy, Jake was always “expected to be either charming or invisible as a child” and as a result, he “never misses an opportunity to be the center of attention in a crowd” (165). He also provides a modicum of comic relief and never takes anything too seriously. As the only Weston who knows the original circumstances of Liam and Anna’s marriage, he shows that he can keep a secret, but even so, he is unable to resist starting trouble, as when he asks Anna to play doctor to him when he gets stung by a jellyfish—even though he knows that she has no medical knowledge.