Julia reverses our expectations of what a woman would be like in that society. She is a contradiction: on the one hand, she is a walking advertisment for the anti-sex league; on the other, a promiscuous woman whose goal is to spread corruption through the party by having sex with as many party members as possible. Unlike Winston, who appears to be fumbling his way into revolutionary acts, she has a system and a plan. She's instigates the affair with Winston and she has actually worked out how to avoid detection (or so we think). Winston tries to be invisible, but Julia makes herself as visible as possible in her community so that on the outside she is everything the party could want. But on the inside, at least for much of the story, she is her own person. I think she is memorable because of this.
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