I. Answer the following questions:
1. What seemed the most scaring for Julia in the talk with her son on the first day of his arrival?
It was his suggestion that sometimes when he came into an empty room and Julia opened the door, nobody were there.
2. How did Julia prepare for the play?
Julia learned her part. She didn’t deliberately create the character she was going to act by observation, she had a knack of getting into the shoes of the woman she had to portray so that she thought with her mind and felt with her senses. Julia wanted to show the courageous yet uneasy breeziness of the Mrs. Marten who played golf and could talk to a man like one good chap to another and yet, essentially a respectable, middle-class woman, hankered for the security of the marriage state.
3. How did she act at the dress-rehearsal? Why?
Julia spared herself. She had no intention of giving all she had to give till the first night.
4. What advice did Julia give Michael about Avice Crichton? Why did she need it? Was that carefully planned?
Julia gave advice towards Avice to Michael but he was not still sure in her. Julia decided to train her role individually. It was planned to take revenge for her. “You can never really tell how a performance is going to pan out till you've got an audience”.
5. Who did Julia talk to about her conversation with Roger? Why? What did she need to get from the conversation?
She talked to Charles and she expected him to be sympathetic
6. Describe the state Julia was in before a first night? Compare her attitude towards first-night acting with the bygone years?
Julia was very nervous. She had felt slightly sick all day and as the hours passed got into such a state that she almost thought she would have to leave the stage. But by now she had acquired a certain nonchalance. Throughout the early part of the day she felt only happy and mildly excited; it was not till late in the afternoon that she began to feel ill at ease. She grew silent and wanted to be left alone. She also grew irritable. Her hands and feet got cold and by the time she reached the theatre they were like lumps of ice.
7. Who did she meet while wandering the streets of London at noon, 6 hours before the first night? Where did they go?
Julia met Tom, who offered her to have tea with him.
8. What thoughts accompanied Julia when she visited Tom's place?
Julia looked round the room. Nothing was changed. Her photograph stood in its old place, but on the chimney piece was a large photograph also of Avice Crichton. The room might have been a set in which she had once acted; it was vaguely familiar, but no longer meant anything to her.
9. Why did Julia change her attitude to Tom? What phrase does Julia pronounce to herself at the end of chapter 28? Comment on it.
Julia didn’t love him anymore. She was free. "I dare say there's something in what Roger said. Love isn't worth all the fuss they make about it" .
10. Was the first night a success for Julia? For Avice? Why?
As for Julia, it was the success while for Avice it was a catastrophe. Julia literally outshined her.
11. What was Tom's attitude towards Avice's acting? How does the scene in Julia's dressing-room characterize him?
Tom found Avice’s acting a rotten one. It characterized him as a person who only wanted to be with people who could introduce him to the high society.
12. Why do you think Julia refused to supper with Tom that night?
Julia refused to supper with Tom that night, because it was the end with him, she didn’t love him anymore.
13. How did Julia spend that night? Was it typical of her? Why did she prefer this?
Julia wanted to be alone and it wasn’t typical for her. This woman understood that she would never have another moment like this in her life.
14. What was peculiar about Julia's appearance and order at the Berkeley? Do you feel that night was somehow significant to her? Why?
Julia was without any make up because it was so unusual moment when she didn’t care about her appearance. She looked at herself at the mirror and thought about her life.
15. How does she reflect about the day passed? Does she feel satisfied? Why? Prove your point of view.
Julia was satisfied with her meetings with Tom because she realized her indifference towards him. "It was an amusing experience."
16. Describe the place in a restaurant where Julia was having supper? What was special about it? Why had she chosen to be seated there?
The room in which she sat was connected by three archways with the big dining-room where they supped and danced; amid the crowd doubtless were a certain number who had been to the play. How surprised they would be if they knew that the quiet little woman in the corner of the adjoining room, her face half hidden by a felt hat, was Julia Lambert. It gave her a pleasant sense of independence to sit there unknown and unnoticed. They were acting a play for her and she was the audience.
17. What conclusion did Julia come to while sitting at the Berkeley and "throwing prudence to the winds?"
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. A stage - is a reality, all else is an illusion.
1. What seemed the most scaring for Julia in the talk with her son on the first day of his arrival?
It was his suggestion that sometimes when he came into an empty room and Julia opened the door, nobody were there.
2. How did Julia prepare for the play?
Julia learned her part. She didn’t deliberately create the character she was going to act by observation, she had a knack of getting into the shoes of the woman she had to portray so that she thought with her mind and felt with her senses. Julia wanted to show the courageous yet uneasy breeziness of the Mrs. Marten who played golf and could talk to a man like one good chap to another and yet, essentially a respectable, middle-class woman, hankered for the security of the marriage state.
3. How did she act at the dress-rehearsal? Why?
Julia spared herself. She had no intention of giving all she had to give till the first night.
4. What advice did Julia give Michael about Avice Crichton? Why did she need it? Was that carefully planned?
Julia gave advice towards Avice to Michael but he was not still sure in her. Julia decided to train her role individually. It was planned to take revenge for her. “You can never really tell how a performance is going to pan out till you've got an audience”.
5. Who did Julia talk to about her conversation with Roger? Why? What did she need to get from the conversation?
She talked to Charles and she expected him to be sympathetic
6. Describe the state Julia was in before a first night? Compare her attitude towards first-night acting with the bygone years?
Julia was very nervous. She had felt slightly sick all day and as the hours passed got into such a state that she almost thought she would have to leave the stage. But by now she had acquired a certain nonchalance. Throughout the early part of the day she felt only happy and mildly excited; it was not till late in the afternoon that she began to feel ill at ease. She grew silent and wanted to be left alone. She also grew irritable. Her hands and feet got cold and by the time she reached the theatre they were like lumps of ice.
7. Who did she meet while wandering the streets of London at noon, 6 hours before the first night? Where did they go?
Julia met Tom, who offered her to have tea with him.
8. What thoughts accompanied Julia when she visited Tom's place?
Julia looked round the room. Nothing was changed. Her photograph stood in its old place, but on the chimney piece was a large photograph also of Avice Crichton. The room might have been a set in which she had once acted; it was vaguely familiar, but no longer meant anything to her.
9. Why did Julia change her attitude to Tom? What phrase does Julia pronounce to herself at the end of chapter 28? Comment on it.
Julia didn’t love him anymore. She was free. "I dare say there's something in what Roger said. Love isn't worth all the fuss they make about it" .
10. Was the first night a success for Julia? For Avice? Why?
As for Julia, it was the success while for Avice it was a catastrophe. Julia literally outshined her.
11. What was Tom's attitude towards Avice's acting? How does the scene in Julia's dressing-room characterize him?
Tom found Avice’s acting a rotten one. It characterized him as a person who only wanted to be with people who could introduce him to the high society.
12. Why do you think Julia refused to supper with Tom that night?
Julia refused to supper with Tom that night, because it was the end with him, she didn’t love him anymore.
13. How did Julia spend that night? Was it typical of her? Why did she prefer this?
Julia wanted to be alone and it wasn’t typical for her. This woman understood that she would never have another moment like this in her life.
14. What was peculiar about Julia's appearance and order at the Berkeley? Do you feel that night was somehow significant to her? Why?
Julia was without any make up because it was so unusual moment when she didn’t care about her appearance. She looked at herself at the mirror and thought about her life.
15. How does she reflect about the day passed? Does she feel satisfied? Why? Prove your point of view.
Julia was satisfied with her meetings with Tom because she realized her indifference towards him. "It was an amusing experience."
16. Describe the place in a restaurant where Julia was having supper? What was special about it? Why had she chosen to be seated there?
The room in which she sat was connected by three archways with the big dining-room where they supped and danced; amid the crowd doubtless were a certain number who had been to the play. How surprised they would be if they knew that the quiet little woman in the corner of the adjoining room, her face half hidden by a felt hat, was Julia Lambert. It gave her a pleasant sense of independence to sit there unknown and unnoticed. They were acting a play for her and she was the audience.
17. What conclusion did Julia come to while sitting at the Berkeley and "throwing prudence to the winds?"
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. A stage - is a reality, all else is an illusion.
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