# Julie Marvis — Short Fiction character guide

> Julie Marvis in Short Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Julie, young Julie, little Julie

**First appearance:** 0056-the-cut-glass-bowl

## Snapshot

Julie Marvis is the small daughter whose quiet neediness and hidden pockets of grief anchor her mother Evylyn to a domestic life she finds stifling and strange.

## Who they are

Julie drifts through the Piper household as a shy, watchful child whose small hand keeps creeping back into her dress pocket for comfort. Her mother Evylyn, restless and half-absent, tries and fails to teach her independence, then gives up the experiment when Julie mopes. Julie's quiet dependence becomes one of the domestic weights Evylyn cannot shed, and her presence makes the family's slow unraveling feel intimate rather than abstract.

## In the story

### [Porcelain and Pink](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/porcelain-and-pink)

The younger sister, bathing in the tub; witty, irreverent, and unashamed of her nudity.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/ii)

Evylyn and Harold's young daughter; she cuts her thumb on a bowl and is comforted by her mother.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_16_se/chapters/iii)

Julie is Evylyn's young daughter who cuts her hand on a punch bowl and develops blood poisoning, causing a family crisis.

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