⇨ Richard is lust. He lusts after Henry, Charles, Francis, and supposedly Camilla. He is blind to everything, from moral values to his own stupidity, constantly romanticizing everything about the deities he joins during this short and life altering experience. According to Dante’s Inferno, those who commit the sin of lust are subject to suffer by being blown away by winds that symbolize their lack of self control. This is what happens to Richard after his closeted lust of everything, he can only tell the story of the past.

⇨ Camilla Macaulay is sloth. She is barely a real person in the books, thanks to Richard, but what is evident is her inactivity. She lets Charles and Henry duel with each other, she never confronts anything outright and lets it be. If she seems weak, she chooses to do so rather than act and do the rightful thing. She holds that lazy charm of apathy all throughout the book, that drunken quality of not caring enough to actually do something.

⇨ Francis Abernathy as Envy: Though technically jealousy would be a more suitable term. He desires Charles’ affection, begging him to look, to please love him, to care for him in the way he does. Francis holds that desperation and bitterness at what he can not have, but he is not strong enough to take what he wants. He helps Charles go to rehab, paying for him, begging him even in the last moment. He needs affirmation that he hasn’t done anything wrong. He is a fragile kind of envy, an envy that he can not afford.

⇨ Charles Macaulay as wrath:  He seeks to put everything under his thumb: his sister, his alcoholism, and closeted sexuality. When he fails at that quest, he lashes out with a vengeance, destroying himself and everyone else in the process. All he has maintained before falls away and that nakedness causes him to fall into a cycle of self-destruction. He is the ultimate failure of the group, even more so than the others. 

⇨ Henry Winter as Pride:  Henry honors his own goals and heroism above all others, he dies and lives of pride. Since Pride is considered the most dangerous out of all the seven sins, the perpetrator and the source,  it seems fitting for Henry. He was the one who dragged all the others into his bacchanal, his alibis, pulling them along in his irreversible quest.

⇨ Bunny as Greed and Gluttony: He eats excessively, constantly stuffs himself with food, and he also desires material wealth that he can not pay for. Greed and gluttony can be read close to selfishness, which is a trait that everyone holds in this book, but especially Bunny. He pays for his selfishness with a death that no one truly mourns.