The+double+nature+of+Julia+Lambert.

 ** The double nature of Julia Lambert. **    ** Throughout the novel we can easily observe Julia’s behaviour **** on the scene, comparing it with that in her daily life. It should be noticed, that it is Julia, who chooses her tactics of conversation with one or another. She also decides for herself in what manner she should behave with her husband, her son, with Tom and even with those whom she sees for the first time. It is obviously, that Julia played the role of an actress in the ordinary life. These skills could be seen not only in her speech, but in the manners, postures, tone of her voice. __The double nature of Julia Lambert__ is observed through these manifestations. Thus, for example, Julia, having the conversation with Joan Denver, who was Roger’s girl, **// “  //// she continued to play the imperious, aloof, stately and well-bred woman of the play”. //

// “…Her cordial smile was the smile of a queen; her graciousness kept you at a respectful distance. //// ” //**  (ch.20, p.196)  **

** When the relationships between Tom and Julia were strained because of Avice Crichton, it was difficult for Julia to hide her pain and sufferings, because, firstly, __she is a woman__, but at the same time __she is a perfect actress__ and this nature of Julia always predominated. We may follow her behaviour during the conversation between them: **

<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">“I know, and I’m terribly fond of you. You’re great fun to go about with and you’re always so well turned out, you’re a credit to any woman. I’ve liked going to bed with you and I’ve a sort of notion you’ve liked going to bed with me. But let’s face it, I’ve never been in love with you any more than you’ve been in love with me. I knew it couldn’t last. Sooner or later you were bound to fall in love and that would end it. And you have fallen in love, haven’t you?” // <span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes.” // <span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">She was determined to make him say it, but when he did the pang it gave her was dreadful. Notwithstanding, she smiled good-humouredly. // <span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">She spoke so naturally, almost jestingly, that no one could have guessed that the pain at her heart seemed past bearing. She waited for his answer with sickening dread. // <span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">…Julia sank into a chair. She had acted, she had acted marvellously, and now she felt all in. Tears, tears that nobody could see, rolled down her cheeks. She was miserably unhappy.” //** <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">(ch.21, p.210-211)  **

<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">** __<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">The nature of a woman __ **** <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> also appeared in Julia, she always wanted to love and to be loved. During the conversation with Evie, Julia admitted the fact that once she wanted to be picked up by a man in the street. **

<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">“…You know, it's a most extraordinary thing, no one ever follows me in the street. I don't remember a man ever having tried to pick me up.” // <span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">“…I was only wondering why in point of fact I never have been accosted by a man. It's not as if I had no sex appeal.” // <span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">“She was a trifle nervous, but pleasantly excited; she felt that she was doing something rather shocking. She walked through Connaught Square into the Edgware Road. It was about five o'clock. There was a dense line of buses, taxis and lorries; bicyclists dangerously threaded their way through the traffic. The pavements were thronged. She sauntered slowly north. At first she walked with her eyes straight in front of her, looking neither to the right nor to the left, but soon realized that this was useless. She must look at people if she wanted them to look at her. // <span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Two or three times when she saw half a dozen persons gazing at a shop window she paused and gazed too, but none of them took any notice of her” //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> ** (ch.25, p.249-250) **

<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">** <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">After that queer experiment had finished, she came __to the conclusion__: **

<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">“Old, old, old," she muttered. "There are no two ways about it; I'm entirely devoid of sex appeal.” // <span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">“I walk from one end of the Edgware Road to the other and God knows I'd dressed the part perfectly, and not a man pays the smallest attention to me except a bloody little shop-assistant who wants my autograph for his young lady. It's absurd. A lot of sexless bastards. I don't know what's coming to the English. The British Empire!” //** <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">(ch.25, p.256)  **

<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">** <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">The moments she was with Tom especially were meaningful for Julia, because she needed to __feel herself as a very attractive and sex –appealing woman__. **

<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;">// <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">“They got up and went into the bedroom. She took off her hat and slipped out of her dress. He held her in his arms as he had held her so often before. He kissed her closed eyes and the little breasts of which she was so proud. She gave him her body to do what he wanted with but her spirit held aloof. She returned his kisses out of amiability, but she caught herself thinking of the part she was going to play that night. She seemed to be two persons, the mistress in her lover's embrace, and the actress who already saw in her mind's eye the vast vague dark audience and heard the shouts of applause as she stepped on to the stage.” //** <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">(ch.28, p.284)  ** <span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">