# Vile Bodies — Character guide

> Key figures in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh.

- [Adam Fenwick-Symes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/adam_fenwick_symes.md): Adam moves through Bright Young People society as an outsider with an insider's invitation — broke, in love, and perpetually one deal away from respectability. His engagement to Nina keeps dissolving and re-forming aroun
- [Nina Blount](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/nina_blount.md): Nina is a Bright Young Thing from an eccentric county family, engaged to Adam, then to Ginger, then back again, depending on whose prospects look better that week. She is affectionate, unsentimental, and clear-eyed about
- [Miss Runcible](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/miss_runcible.md): Agatha careens through the novel's parties and pranks with a heedlessness that makes her both beloved and alarming to her set. Her outrageous treatment at the hands of Customs officers, her bruises aboard the captive dir
- [Lottie Crump](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/lottie_crump.md): Lottie runs her parlour as a democratic haven for anyone with a title or a thirst, greeting Adam with cheerful misremembered names and an ex-King of Ruritania in the corner. She has a weak spot for royalty and an equitab
- [Ginger Littlejohn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/ginger_littlejohn.md): Ginger is a childhood friend of Nina's, straightforward, solvent, and cheerfully oblivious to the romantic wreckage he leaves behind by proposing. He turns up at parties with his hands clasped under his coattails, strutt
- [Colonel Blount](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/colonel_blount.md): The Colonel lives in a rambling country house overrun by a cinematograph company shooting a Wesleyan massacre, and he could not be more delighted to be cast as an extra. He is vague, generous, and entirely absorbed in hi
- [Simon Balcairn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/simon_balcairn.md): Balcairn runs the social diary that the Bright Young Things both dread and devour, feeding his readers half-lies and half-libels gleaned from paid informants. When a single suppressed paragraph earns him the enmity of a 
- [Father Rothschild S.J.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/father_rothschild.md): Father Rothschild boards the Channel crossing among the Bright Young Things, quietly cataloguing each face and its polite misgiving. His imitation-crocodile case conceals a false beard, a school atlas, and underwear that
- [Miles Malpractice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/miles_malpractice.md): Miles moves through the Bright Young People's world of motor races and country-house parties with an eyelash curler and no visible means of support. His talent is for the small, ruinous gesture — the cosmetic touch, the 
- [Mr. Outrage](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/mr_outrage.md): The Right Honourable Walter Outrage, M.P., travels in an uneasy trance, his premiership already behind him and his reputation held together by public-looking sergeants and a notable diffidence in love. Two tipsy dowagers
- [Mrs. Florin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/mrs_florin.md): A gossipy older woman who keeps tabs on society's doings.
- [Archie Schwert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/archie_schwert.md): A fast-talking American friend of the Bright Young People.
- [Chastity](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/chastity.md): One of Mrs. Melrose Ape's angelic chorus girls on a crusade.
- [Mrs. Melrose Ape](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/mrs_melrose_ape.md): An American evangelist who brings her troupe to London.
- [Darling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/darling.md): A vapid socialite and frequent party-goer.
- [Margot Metroland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/margot_metroland.md): A glamorous society hostess and former mistress of Adam.
- [Lord Vanburgh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/lord_vanburgh.md): An elderly aristocrat who appears at parties.
- [The Rector](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/the_rector.md): The local clergyman who performs a wedding.
- [Johnny Hoop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/johnny_hoop.md): A young man about town.
- [Sir James Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/sir_james_brown.md): A pompous politician or public figure.
- [Baroness Yoshiwara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/baroness_yoshiwara.md): An exotic foreign baroness at a party.

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