This master’s thesis focuses on the description of material objects and human–thing interactions in the novel In Youth is Pleasure (1945) by the British author Denton Welch. Welch’s novel is full of detailed portrayals of the material world – especially its human-made objects – which the protagonist Orvil Pym interacts with and immerses himself in. The unconventional aspects of this interaction, along with the abundance of things and their descriptions, inspire a reading that charts the descriptive schemes and patterns manifested in the novel, and yet embraces the ambiguity that characterises its human–thing relations. The topic of the study is approached by asking 1) how the interaction between humans and inanimate things is described in Denton Welch’s In Youth is Pleasure, and 2) how a queer perspective can contribute to the analysis of materialities and their descriptions in Welch’s novel. The methods, queer reading and analysis of description, are derived from the theoretical perspectives employed: theory of description, queer narrative theory, and thing theory. The analysis shows that Orvil’s experimentation with material things goes against the logics of instrumentality both on the levels of story and discourse, revealing the complex potentials and problematics of thingification, agency, possession, and visuality. The ambivalence of the human–thing interaction in the novel participates in the queering of both description and narration, coinciding with the suggestion that there may be queer potential in the analysis of description.