# Mr. Outrage — Vile Bodies character guide

> Mr. Outrage in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Outrage, Poor Mr. Outrage

**First appearance:** 0004-ii

## Snapshot

Last week's Prime Minister, dosing himself with chloral before breakfast and trailed by detectives who know exactly what he got up to in Paris.

## Who they are

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 on deck mistake him for a figure of scandal and decline, debating whether he 'has it' as if he were a racehorse. He embodies the novel's suspicion that the men who run things are simply the young people with worse nerves and better tailors.

## Relationships

### [Baroness Yoshiwara](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/baroness_yoshiwara)

_social_

Baroness Yoshiwara and Mr. Outrage are both part of the decadent upper-class social scene, sharing a superficial acquaintance at parties.

## In the story

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

Mentioned as a guest dining upstairs, mistakenly thought to be Prime Minister; later receives a phone call from Father Rothschild.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/viii)

Feels melancholic at the party; discusses the younger generation and the possibility of war with Lord Metroland and Father Rothschild.

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