Julia+Simmons

Julia Simmons

 * Character Analysis **

The Julia we all know and love is actually Emma Jocelyn Stamfordis, niece of Randall and next in line to his inheritance after Letitia, though it is not revealed until Chapter 20, when the real Julia sends a letter to Letitia. When Julia was three, her parents split; she with her father and Pip with her mother. Then, she met Patrick by luck and persuaded him and his sister to let her pretend to be Julia and live with Letty, while the real Julia acted in Perth. Throughout the novel, Emma played out a farce of studying at Michester General Hospital, but really, she just watched the same movies everyday.

Fake Julia does not like repetitions and thought it irritating when everyone commented on Letitia's chrysanthemums and central heating at the murder party. Additionally, Emma shares a mutual dislike with Philipa, and only dislikes Philipa more when she overhears Letty telling Philipa all her money from Randall will go to Philipa alone. Emma is also aesthetically pleasing and is sometimes referred to as "the good-looking girl with the cool stare" and she has a very nonchalant and composed temperament.