From reading act 1 scene 1, it is reverently clear that Algernon has the higher status and is the dominant speaker in the conversation. In this conversation, declaration and interrogation is you used, by Algernon question Jack Worthing you understand why Earnest is made up and who Earnest it's about. Algernon calls Jack a 'bunburyist' someone who leads a double life in two different places but he's really interested in why Jack is Earnest in town and Jack in the country. Jack is a very respectable man, he's adopted Cecily Cardew and she looks up to him as an uncle, however Jack has created Earnest who's suppose to be his brother. Jack has described his brother to get into the most dreadful scrapes.