How is the generation gap depicted in Vile Bodies similar to your own experiences of generation gaps? How do economic conditions and advances in technology underscore that divide both in the novel and in your experience?

Waugh claimed that Vile Bodies was “the first English novel in which dialogue on the telephone plays a large part” (viii). How do phone conversations establish the relationship of the characters to one another, and the readers’ relationship to the protagonists?

How does Waugh portray Adam and Nina’s relationship? How long have they known each other? What is their relationship to family?