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"Miss Brill"
"Miss Brill"
"Miss Brill," is an intriguing short story written by Katherine Mansfield in 1921. This story is about a developing character known as Miss Brill. The story begins with Miss Brill being excited about the day being Sunday, and the most special Sunday because it is the beginning of a new season and she gets to wear her fur. She is an observant women being entertained by others lives in a public garden, and learning that she is also entertaining them. Miss Brill is a middle age, lonely, and unhappy woman that goes to the public garden looking for validation on Sunday's.
To begin, Miss Brill is a middle age woman. Readers know this because the Mansfield describes, "
a fine old man in a velvet coat,
and a big old woman,
" sitting in her, ["special"] seat with her on Sunday. Those two descriptions of older patrons say that she is not the same age as them. Also in the story she is described as, "
that stupid old thing at the end,
" by a young couple sitting on the bench after the older couple retires. Then Mansfield establishes Miss Brill's age again when it is stated that she reads to an elderly gentleman four times a week. This is another fact in the story that allows readers to know Miss Brill is middle age. And one last thing that indicates Miss Brill's age is the description the Mansfield gives about the two young girls, and the two young sailors. With no one ever quite being Miss Brill's age it is safe to say she is middle age.
Miss Brill is also a lonely woman. Mansfield made this evident in the beginning when Miss Brill started treating her fur as if it were a companion. She calls it a, "Dear little thing!" and proceeds to brush it off and prepare it for wear. Mansfield also uses the ermine toque as a symbol of Miss Brill's loneliness in the passage where she states, "
she [is] wearing the same ermine toque that she'd brought when her hair was yellow. Now everything, her...
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