The Catholic Book Club discussion

6. Which of the characters did you find most attractive? Which least attractive? Why?

I most liked Cordelia. Her punking her future brother-in-law with such stories as the Vatican's sacred monkeys still make me smile. She was the only member of the family who seemed to work at living her faith.

John wrote: "I most liked Cordelia. Her punking her future brother-in-law with such stories as the Vatican's sacred monkeys still make me smile. She was the only member of the family who seemed to work at livin..."
I totally agree with you Cordeliais the most attarctive character of Brideshead Revisited. I love the priest who appears in the novel especially Father McKay. I got on with Mulcaster. Perhaps the ugliest characters were Rex Mottram, Hooper, and Anthony Blanche. You ask in other bloog Blance is inspired in Brian Howard a friend, who knew Evelyn during his period at the university, at the beggining the people thought that Anthony Blanche was inspired in Harold Acton who read the Wasted Land like Anthony Blanche, but Brian Howard was the model. The family Marchmain is inspired in Lygon a homosexual friend that Evelyn Waugh knew at the university.

Lord Marchmain and his death, although at the beggining i thought that it was inspired in Oscar Wilde death. It was inspired in Herbert Duggans death. Duggan was a Evelyn Waugh`s friend, who deny his catholic religion, when he died Evelyn Waugh helped to die good, and he returned to the catholic religion.