# Verg Gunch — Babbitt character guide

> Verg Gunch in Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Verg, Gunch

**First appearance:** 0000-chapter-i

## Who they are

A variant name for Virgil Gunch, used in club contexts.

## In the story

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/babbitt_se/chapters/iv)

Verg Gunch is mentioned as someone Babbitt visited the previous evening and discussed diet with.

### [Chapter V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/babbitt_se/chapters/chapter-v)

Mentioned as host of a party Babbitt attended; part of the Roughnecks table.

### [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/babbitt_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned as host of a party Babbitt stayed up late at; part of the Roughnecks table at the club.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/babbitt_se/chapters/v)

Babbitt worries about what Verg Gunch would think if he saw him going to Seneca Doane's house.

### [Chapter XXX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/babbitt_se/chapters/chapter-xxx)

Mentioned as part of the 'Bunch' that Babbitt wants to continue meeting.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/babbitt_se/chapters/i)

Verg Gunch is mentioned as part of the social circle Babbitt wants to maintain, representing the pull of his bachelor-like social life.

### [Chapter XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/babbitt_se/chapters/chapter-xxxi)

Mentioned at the Roughnecks' Table, discussing the Good Citizens' League and seemingly excluding Babbitt.

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/babbitt_se/chapters/ii)

Talks about the Good Citizens' League at the Roughnecks' Table, deliberately excluding Babbitt from invitations.

## Links

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