# Nina Blount — Vile Bodies character guide

> Nina Blount in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Miss Blount, Anne Opalthorpe, Miss Nina Blount

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Snapshot

Nina Blount loves Adam but won't marry without money, and her pragmatic streak keeps colliding with the giddy whirl of parties she can't quite quit.

## Who they are

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 the economics of marriage in a way Adam finds both maddening and irresistible. Her wavering loyalty drives the novel's central romantic question: whether love can survive the relentless social machinery of the season.

## Relationships

### [Adam Fenwick-Symes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/adam_fenwick_symes)

_romantic_

Adam and Nina are engaged in a chaotic, on-again-off-again romance marked by misunderstandings, financial woes, and mutual affection despite constant obstacles.

### [Darling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/darling)

_social_

Darling is a fashionable, idle socialite who flirts with Nina and moves in the same Bright Young People circles, but their connection is superficial.

### [Ginger Littlejohn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/ginger_littlejohn)

_romantic_

Ginger is infatuated with Nina and pursues her romantically, but she treats him with amused indifference, preferring Adam.

### [Colonel Blount](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/colonel_blount)

_family_

Colonel Blount is Nina's neglectful, eccentric father who loves her in his own distracted way but fails to provide stability.

### [Adam Fenwick-Symes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/adam_fenwick_symes)

_romantic_

Adam and Nina are engaged in a chaotic, on-again-off-again romance marked by misunderstandings, financial woes, and mutual affection despite constant obstacles.

### [Adam Fenwick-Symes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/adam_fenwick_symes)

_romantic_

Adam and Nina are engaged in a chaotic, on-again-off-again romance marked by misunderstandings, financial woes, and mutual affection despite constant obstacles.

### [Darling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/darling)

_social_

Darling is a fashionable, idle socialite who flirts with Nina and moves in the same Bright Young People circles, but their connection is superficial.

### [Colonel Blount](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/colonel_blount)

_family_

Colonel Blount is Nina's neglectful, eccentric father who loves her in his own distracted way but fails to provide stability.

### [Ginger Littlejohn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/ginger_littlejohn)

_romantic_

Ginger is infatuated with Nina and pursues her romantically, but she treats him with amused indifference, preferring Adam.

### [Ginger Littlejohn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/ginger_littlejohn)

_romantic_

Ginger is infatuated with Nina and pursues her romantically, but she treats him with amused indifference, preferring Adam.

### [Darling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/characters/darling)

_social_

Darling is a fashionable, idle socialite who flirts with Nina and moves in the same Bright Young People circles, but their connection is superficial.

## In the story

### [Vile Bodies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/vile-bodies)

Adam's love interest, present at parties and central to the romantic farce.

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

Receives Adam's phone call; agrees to meet him at Archie Schwert's party.

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

Present at Archie Schwert's party; her broken engagement is mentioned as lacking publicity value.

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

Spends the night with Adam; reveals the cheque signed 'Charlie Chaplin' is worthless.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/vi)

Sits with Adam, expresses boredom; Lady Throbbing notes she looks 'a little changed.'

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/vii)

Lunches with Adam at Espinosa's; plans to marry him; accompanies him to the November Handicap.

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

Attends the airship party with Adam; talks with Adam about getting married and suggests he visit her father again.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/ix)

Speaks with Adam on the phone, offers to write his column with Ginger.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/xi)

Confesses the Major is bogus and she has no money, then calls back to announce her engagement to Ginger.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/xii)

Engaged to Ginger; her father loses all his money on a film; she meets Adam at the nursing home and admits she was once in love with him.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/xiii)

Nina is now Mrs. Littlejohn and participates in Christmas traditions with Adam and her father.

### [Happy Ending](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/happy-ending)

Writes a letter to Adam from Doubting Hall, mentioning her pregnancy, Ginger's job, and various war news.

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