Dr.

Simon Jordan
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When they first meet, she is mistrustful and reserved of him

Was expected to run the family mill business
Fathers death led to businesss demise feels alone
Didnt think she would be attractive before meeting her
Sees her as both innocent and attracting
Grace doesnt talk to him for the first few days
o First talks about the weather
o Talks about building railroads
o Talks about familys mill business
Dr. Wokman and Bannerling disagree on Graces mental state.
Reverend Verringer- Methodist Minister representing committee
funding Simons research
o Support petition for graces release
o Warden responsible for graces condition, cruel, sexual
abuse and torture of prisoners
Simon wonders if Verringer is in love with Grace
Simon visit governors home
o Meets Mrs. Quenell (spiritualist) Dr. Jerome DuPont (Neurohypnotist)
o Simon is weary about hypnotism used for amnesia
o Governors daughter flirts with him agrees to do a
presentation for the governors wifes circle. Aware he is
influenced by the women he finds attractive
IMPORTANT: Simons mother wants him to marry
Grace tells about cooking instead of associating vegetables with
cellars
Knows Grace has always been judged and many people want her
to not be innocent
Lots of people associated with Grace are not trustworthy (dr.
Bannerling, Mrs. Alderman Parkinson) see her as potential guinea
pig for psychological experiments (governors wife)
Grace operated under mary Whitney after the murder
Simon feels like she is innocent but yet is somehow possessed
with a relationship to the murder
Grace says But when you go mad you dont go any other place,
you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in
Asks about her life story and newspapers accounts of it but she
says reporters are young and unreliable
Grace comes from Ireland but didnt tell reporters to protect her
Aunt
Grandfatehr was a clergyman, misappropriated church funds
Didnt really know her father

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Simon writes to Dr. Murchie that Graces role as a servant has

taught her composure and self-containment
Gives Humphrey money
Set up with Lydia
Dream of being strangled in a womans hair
Mr. Kinnear flirted with Grace
Brings items for Grace
Simon tells Grace that McDermott said in his confession that
Grace ahd plotted to murder them both by poisoning their
porridge
Day she describes murder
o Grace says no one has ever cared to hear her side of the
story
o Brings silver candle stick
o Mr. Kinnear left on a trip, Nancy fired Grace and
McDermott, Grace out of jealously for her husband
o McDermott told Grace he planned to kill nancy and Mr.
Kinnear
o Grace tried to warn but Nancy didnt listen
o McDermott warned her he would take her life if she told
o Fainted after McDermott shot a gun at her
Sonnambula-innocent village girl sleepwalking
Mcdermott said she promised sex in exchange for Nancys
murder
McDermott was not inconspicuous. Spent money liberally
Simon Dream of autopsy on woman, more sheets and cloth
appear
Had sex with Mrs. Humphrey
Hates her in the day but enjoys the sex
MacKenzie Lawyer got the case because no one wanted it
Mackenize planted ideas and language in Graces mouth
Visits Mary Whitenys grave to prove her existence
Simon think hypnotism is theatrics
o Curtains are maroon plush like a Episcopalian funeral
o Globe shaped lamp in the middle of the table
Simon knows he has to preserve his objectivity but shows his
disdain anyway
Grace admits that she did see Nancy die and that she needed to
be put out of her misery because she was neither alive nor dead
Admits to not being Grace and says she is Mary Whitney
inhabiting Graces body
Grace has a neurological disorder dedoublement
Simon says Grace should be exonerated
Cant figure out how to prepare a report without discrediting his
medical reputation (Professional Insecurities)

Mrs. Humphrey says they should kill her husband

Simon leaves
Injured at war
Engaged to Faith Cartwright
Grace asks Simon to wright the government a letter on her
behalf to set her free

Act wishy washy because Simon cant untangle his feelings so he cant
make a clear decision.
- Mother wants him to succeed financially, settled in a home
- Simon prefers prostitutes because they are not respectable and
he doesnt assume any responsibility
- Being a doctor attracts women because of his knowledge
- Wants to find out how to measure the effects of shock and
diagnose amnesias
- Grace represents to him some goal or accomplishment
- Realizes Grace is withholding but doesnt do anything
- Cant keep track of the pieces one she starts remembering
- Dreams represent his sexual desires (dreams of grace instead of
Nancy Humphrey)
- Gets amnesia after injuries in the civil War
- Feels like women are closing in on him
- Dream of being strangled in a womans hair