# Bunty Mainwaring — The Vortex character guide

> Bunty Mainwaring in The Vortex by Noël Coward.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Bunty, Bunty Tom Veryan?, Bunty Rather, Bunty Smiling, Bunty Calculating pig, Bunty Laughing, Bunty Lightly, Bunty Thanks, Bunty Mainwaring, Bunty Dragging Bruce, Bunty Mainwaring?

**First appearance:** 0002-the-vortex

## Snapshot

Bunty Mainwaring delivers her opinions with a smile sharp enough to draw blood, and never lets a serious moment stand unchallenged.

## Who they are

Bunty is a fixture of Florence's set, teasing Bruce Fairlight out of his serious-dramatist pose and pronouncing on pianists, technique, and inspiration with cheerful certainty. She moves through the room pairing off partners and keeping the talk at a pitch of amused malice, her lightness a kind of armor. Her readiness to puncture pretension, including her own friends', keeps the social surface glittering while the deeper currents go unspoken.

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