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"The Theatre" is the story of Julia Lambert, the best and deservingly famous stage actress in England. On stage she is a true master of her craft, she is great in playing every possible human feeling and emotion. Off stage, however, she is not very happy with her handsome but not too bright husband; she does not have close relationship with her teenager son. At first, amused and touched by the adoration of a young fan, she eventually falls madly in love and lives through the real feelings and emotions that she was so great in playing on stage. Julia Lambert is an actress in her late forties, a grand diva of the stage, aging perhaps but still at the height of her powers. Unlike most actresses, she has always been very respectable; but for a long time now she and her husband have only been the best of friends. Enter a fan, a youth called Tom Fennell, young enough to be her son. He seduces her; she falls in love. Unfortunately, he turns out to be a scheming little git, but she can’t let her disappointment get the better of her. So what is Julia Lambert? She is shrewd, vain, frivolous, not overly concerned with the difference between truth and lies, and rather vulgar on the inside; but even though we can see all her faults, there is a warmth and frankness about her character that makes her irresistible. Strangely enough, Maugham manages to bring her acting talent to life on the pages of the book. Julia beguiles us with her charm and vivacity as we see her beguile the people around her, and we can guess how beguiling she must be on stage. In Tom, she doesn’t seem to seek her lost youth so much as the lost passion of youth. One gets the idea that Julia Lambert the actress may be stuck in a rut needs to be shaken up a bit; but will the feelings of Julia Lambert the woman do more harm than good? Tom may be snobbish and impertinent, but ultimately little more than a rather foolish young man, and his true feelings for Julia remain a mystery till the end. Julia’s love was sincere. Julia’s female half was asleep until meeting with Tom. He was a trigger for her. She rushed to Tom with the whole her passion. To overcome herself she tried with the help of the theatre. On stage, she lived a life of her own, demonstrated it. But Michael guessed it and pointed it out. That’s why the theatre did not help her at once. Circumstances played an important role. The Tom’s betrayal was too obvious. She should have been abstracted and she fled to France. There she had the opportunity to think about everything. Returning from there she began looking at Tom and Avis from the top down, manipulated by them as a good director. For the Tom an image of an actress and a woman were inseparable. Therefore, the Avis’ failure have overcame all his feelings. But Julia has exalted as deity.
 * How did Julia manage to overcome her love for Tom? **