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Julie Freeman is a journalist who is in the process of writing a book about Jonathan Alkaitis. She visits him in prison to conduct interviews about his past and the Ponzi scheme. When Alkaitis asks Freeman why she is writing about him, she explains that she is interested in mass delusion, and she sees investors’ willingness to believe in the legitimacy of Alkaitis’s fund to be an instance of mass delusion.
Julie Freeman Quotes in The Glass Hotel
The The Glass Hotel quotes below are all either spoken by Julie Freeman or refer to Julie Freeman. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6: The Counterlife
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He doesn’t tell Julie Freeman this, but now that it’s much too late to flee, Alkaitis finds himself thinking about flight all the time. He likes to indulge in daydreams of a parallel version of events—a counterlife, if you will—in which he fled to the United Arab Emirates. Why not? He loves the UAE and Dubai in particular, the way it’s possible to live an entire life without going outdoors except to step into smooth cars, floating from beautiful interior to beautiful interior with expert drivers in between.
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Chapter 12: The Counterlife
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“Well, look at it this way. I believe we’re in agreement that it should have been obvious to any sophisticated investor that you were running a fraudulent scheme. […] So in order for your scheme to succeed for as long as it did, a great many people had to believe in a story that didn’t actually make sense. But everyone was making money, so no one cared, except Ella Kaspersky.”
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Julie Freeman Quotes in The Glass Hotel
The The Glass Hotel quotes below are all either spoken by Julie Freeman or refer to Julie Freeman. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 6: The Counterlife
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He doesn’t tell Julie Freeman this, but now that it’s much too late to flee, Alkaitis finds himself thinking about flight all the time. He likes to indulge in daydreams of a parallel version of events—a counterlife, if you will—in which he fled to the United Arab Emirates. Why not? He loves the UAE and Dubai in particular, the way it’s possible to live an entire life without going outdoors except to step into smooth cars, floating from beautiful interior to beautiful interior with expert drivers in between.
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Chapter 12: The Counterlife
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“Well, look at it this way. I believe we’re in agreement that it should have been obvious to any sophisticated investor that you were running a fraudulent scheme. […] So in order for your scheme to succeed for as long as it did, a great many people had to believe in a story that didn’t actually make sense. But everyone was making money, so no one cared, except Ella Kaspersky.”
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