They are few in numbers and are vulnerable to dissolution from the outset ("How people are disappearing, Adam," remarks Nina in the later stages of the novel). ... The Bright Young Things are constantly infantilized by Waugh and portrayed as strangely child-like and prepubescent; the only instance of sex at a party is when at a dirigible party two characters are observed to be "making out" with each other, and the novel's first reference to a potentially erogenous part of the body is in the Bright Young People's "tummies" (here the use of the word is a deliberate move towards the in...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate