The Man in the High Castle

by

Philip K. Dick

Juliana Frink Character Analysis

As every man who encounters her immediately realizes, Juliana Frink is beautiful. Though has she been with many men—including ex-husband Frank Frink—Juliana struggles with what she calls a “neurotic fear of the masculine.” Perhaps in an attempt to overcome this fear, she has trained in Judo. When the novel begins, she is living in Canon City, Colorado, and working as a Judo instructor. After meeting Joe Cinnadella in a diner, they start sleeping together, and she agrees to go to Denver with him. However, Juliana’s consistent fears about Joe are borne out when she discovers that Joe is actually a Nazi—and that he is trying to kill Hawthorne Abendsen, the author of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy (Juliana’s favorite novel). Juliana’s encounter with Abendsen, which ends the novel, is especially revealing. Juliana understands that rather than being merely entertaining, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is in some ways “true”—both because it proves that history is never inevitable and because it illuminates many of the problems and complications of her own present reality. Because she is able to reckon with and to some extent accept this uncertainty, Juliana is the character most able to move into the future, rather than mourning a bygone past or trying to make sense of an impossible present.

Juliana Frink Quotes in The Man in the High Castle

The The Man in the High Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Juliana Frink or refer to Juliana Frink. 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:
Prejudice and Power Theme Icon
).
Chapter 6 Quotes

I wonder what it’s like to sit home in your living room and see the whole world on a little gray glass tube. If those Nazis can fly back and forth between here and Mars, why can’t they get television going? I think I’d prefer that, to watch those comedy shows, actually see what Bob Hope and Durante look like, than to walk around on Mars.

Related Characters: Juliana Frink (speaker)
Related Symbols: TV and Rockets
Page Number: 80
Explanation and Analysis:

Juliana shut the radio off.

“They’re just babbling,” she said. “Why do they use words like that? Those terrible murderers are talked about as if they were like the rest of us.”

“They are like us,” Joe said. He reseated himself and once more ate. “There isn’t anything they’ve done we wouldn’t have done if we’d been in their places.”

Related Characters: Juliana Frink (speaker), Joe Cinnadella (speaker), Robert Childan, Mr. Wyndham-Matson
Page Number: 89
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 10 Quotes

“In some ways it’s not a bad book. He works all the details out; the U.S. has the Pacific, about like our East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. They divide Russia. It works for around ten years. Then there’s trouble—naturally.”

“Why naturally?”

“Human nature.” Joe added, "Nature of states. Suspicion, fear, greed. Churchill thinks the U.S.A. is undermining British rule in South Asia by appealing to the large Chinese populations, who naturally are pro-U.S.A., due to Chiang Kai-shek. The British start setting up”—he grinned at her briefly—“what are called ‘detention preserves.’ Concentration camps, in other words. For thousands of maybe disloyal Chinese.”

Related Characters: Joe Cinnadella (speaker), Juliana Frink
Page Number: 169
Explanation and Analysis:

Listen, I’m not an intellectual—Fascism has no need of that. What is wanted is the deed. Theory derives from action. What our corporate state demands from us is comprehension of the social forces—of history. You see? I tell you; I know, Juliana.

Related Characters: Joe Cinnadella (speaker), Juliana Frink, Frank Frink , Mr. Baynes/Rudolf Wegener
Page Number: 170
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 13 Quotes

As they searched for a good hotel, Juliana kept glancing at the man beside her. With his hair short and blond, and in his new clothes, he doesn’t look like the same person, she thought. Do I like him better this way? It was hard to tell. And me—when I’ve been able to arrange for my hair being done, we’ll be two different persons, almost. Created out of nothing or, rather, out of money. But I just must get my hair done, she told herself.

Related Characters: Juliana Frink (speaker), Frank Frink , Joe Cinnadella
Page Number: 216
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

[Abendsen] told us about our own world, [Juliana] thought as she unlocked the door to her motel room. This, what’s around us now. In the room, she again switched on the radio. He wants us to see it for what it is. And I do, and more so each moment.

Related Characters: Juliana Frink (speaker), Hawthorne Abendsen
Page Number: 263
Explanation and Analysis:

Truth, [Juliana] thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. I’m lucky.

Related Characters: Juliana Frink (speaker), Hawthorne Abendsen, Caroline Abendsen
Page Number: 274
Explanation and Analysis:
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Juliana Frink Quotes in The Man in the High Castle

The The Man in the High Castle quotes below are all either spoken by Juliana Frink or refer to Juliana Frink. 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:
Prejudice and Power Theme Icon
).
Chapter 6 Quotes

I wonder what it’s like to sit home in your living room and see the whole world on a little gray glass tube. If those Nazis can fly back and forth between here and Mars, why can’t they get television going? I think I’d prefer that, to watch those comedy shows, actually see what Bob Hope and Durante look like, than to walk around on Mars.

Related Characters: Juliana Frink (speaker)
Related Symbols: TV and Rockets
Page Number: 80
Explanation and Analysis:

Juliana shut the radio off.

“They’re just babbling,” she said. “Why do they use words like that? Those terrible murderers are talked about as if they were like the rest of us.”

“They are like us,” Joe said. He reseated himself and once more ate. “There isn’t anything they’ve done we wouldn’t have done if we’d been in their places.”

Related Characters: Juliana Frink (speaker), Joe Cinnadella (speaker), Robert Childan, Mr. Wyndham-Matson
Page Number: 89
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 10 Quotes

“In some ways it’s not a bad book. He works all the details out; the U.S. has the Pacific, about like our East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. They divide Russia. It works for around ten years. Then there’s trouble—naturally.”

“Why naturally?”

“Human nature.” Joe added, "Nature of states. Suspicion, fear, greed. Churchill thinks the U.S.A. is undermining British rule in South Asia by appealing to the large Chinese populations, who naturally are pro-U.S.A., due to Chiang Kai-shek. The British start setting up”—he grinned at her briefly—“what are called ‘detention preserves.’ Concentration camps, in other words. For thousands of maybe disloyal Chinese.”

Related Characters: Joe Cinnadella (speaker), Juliana Frink
Page Number: 169
Explanation and Analysis:

Listen, I’m not an intellectual—Fascism has no need of that. What is wanted is the deed. Theory derives from action. What our corporate state demands from us is comprehension of the social forces—of history. You see? I tell you; I know, Juliana.

Related Characters: Joe Cinnadella (speaker), Juliana Frink, Frank Frink , Mr. Baynes/Rudolf Wegener
Page Number: 170
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 13 Quotes

As they searched for a good hotel, Juliana kept glancing at the man beside her. With his hair short and blond, and in his new clothes, he doesn’t look like the same person, she thought. Do I like him better this way? It was hard to tell. And me—when I’ve been able to arrange for my hair being done, we’ll be two different persons, almost. Created out of nothing or, rather, out of money. But I just must get my hair done, she told herself.

Related Characters: Juliana Frink (speaker), Frank Frink , Joe Cinnadella
Page Number: 216
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

[Abendsen] told us about our own world, [Juliana] thought as she unlocked the door to her motel room. This, what’s around us now. In the room, she again switched on the radio. He wants us to see it for what it is. And I do, and more so each moment.

Related Characters: Juliana Frink (speaker), Hawthorne Abendsen
Page Number: 263
Explanation and Analysis:

Truth, [Juliana] thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. I’m lucky.

Related Characters: Juliana Frink (speaker), Hawthorne Abendsen, Caroline Abendsen
Page Number: 274
Explanation and Analysis: