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Miss Brill
Miss Brill perceives herself to be a rather fine lady. She decides to wear her fur as she walks to the park on this rather chilly day, and it is "sweet [...] to see [the little eyes] snap at her...
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Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield leaves the reader with the impression that Miss Brill is not accustomed to sharing her emotions with others. She is aware of her solitary status, but she usually sets that aside...
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Fur - the tatty state of the fur wrap represents the tatty state of Miss Brill, despiteher beliefs to the contrary.Clothing - these are seen by Miss Brill as status symbols throughout the story....
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Miss Brill is extraordinarily lonely. She is unmarried. She teaches English students who are (presumably) the only people she talks to on a regular basis. The narrator notes that the old, invalid...
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Miss Brill is a lonely person who goes to the park, listens to a band playing, and imagines that she's bonding with the people there. It's often the fate of those who are essentially alone to...
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The full passage is as follows: She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked...
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Miss Brill
Two sentences which summarize the story are as follows: Other people sat on the benches and green chairs, but they were nearly always the same, Sunday after Sunday, and Miss Brill had often...
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Miss Brill
In Katherine Mansfield's slice of life story entitled "Miss Brill," clothing is reflective of social class and age, thus symbolizing an era. Interestingly, the descriptions and symbolism of the...
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Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield's short story "Miss Brill" is rife with imagery. Imagery involves the description of everything in enough detail so that the senses of the reader become stimulated and a clear...
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Miss Brill normally looks forward to stopping off at the baker's shop on her way home and treating herself to a slice of honey cake. She particularly likes it when she finds an almond in her slice,...
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First, Miss Brill doesn't know she is a lonely old woman until the Romeo and Juliet couple in the park tell her she is. Her life has been rather pleasant up until this encounter with Romeo and...
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Any conclusion about the cause of Miss Brill's loneliness is a good part inference and a small part textual evidence. There are a couple of remarks the limited third person narrator makes from...
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The fur necklet is symbolic of Miss Brill herself; when she puts it into the box and closes the lid, it sounds like it is crying because it will not be brought out again after the young couple have...
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Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield brings to life a lonely, spinster. In “Miss Brill,” the protagonist does not engage with anyone. In her mind she shares her Sundays with the other people who come to the park...
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Miss Brill's epiphany in "Miss Brill" relates to her relationship to other people. It starts when she realizes she's been relating to the other people in the park as if they were characters in a...
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We can also see the way Miss Brill thinks of the world around her as evidence of the way she conceives of herself. She doesn't see herself as isolated and alone, especially because she can "[sit]...
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Miss Brill
Poor Miss Brill! Katherine Mansfield’s sad story presents an unusual character--- a teacher “Miss Brill” alone in a foreign country who wants so much to have a friend or be a part of a group....
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In Katherine Mansfield's short story "Miss Brill" and James Joyce's short story "Eveline," both protagonists are heartbroken by their present circumstances. In contrast, Eveline has a chance to...
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Miss Brill
Miss Brill imagines herself to be quite a proper lady. She decided to wear her fur, a "Dear little thing!" for her Sunday out to the park to hear the band play. She likes to sit and watch the...
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Miss Brill
"Miss Brill" is about an English spinster living in France, where she supports herself precariously teaching English. We are shown her regular Sunday outing to the park. It is clear from the tone...
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Although it was so brilliantly fine--the blue sky powdered with gold and great spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins Publiques-- Miss Brill was glad that she had decided on her...
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The answer to this is going to depend greatly on what the rest of your essay is about. Most essays, I argue, should look at themes and authorial purpose (why the text was written) so ending with a...
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Miss Brill
Miss Brill is the protagonist of this story that focuses on an elderly English woman living in France who is quite lonely as she teaches students and reads to others who are elderly as well....
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Miss Brill seems to be an English woman who now lives in France and teaches English. At one point, she references her "English pupils" and considers telling them what she does on Sundays. The...
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Interestingly enough, there is little affect in Miss Brill's disposition at the start of the story and at the end of it. In the beginning of the story, she sees herself as the center of all...
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Miss Brill
The mood of "Miss Brill" is fairly whimsical and imaginative in the beginning. The first line of the story and the initial description of the setting is quite pretty and cheerful, introducing this...
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As a variation of that thesis statement, you might consider how Miss Brill compensates for her loneliness. The thesis would then be phrased something like: The central theme of “Miss Brill” is the...
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This is an interesting but in some ways difficult question. Miss Brill dominates Mansfield's story "Miss Brill" but Emily, it might be argued, is only a background figure in Fauklner's "A Rose...
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If we are examining the distinction between "round" and "flat" characters based on the trajectory developed in the course of Mansfield's narrative, then I think one can say that Miss Brill is a...
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Miss Brill is likely fairly elderly. She seems not to be in the best of health, as after walking to the park, "She felt a tingling in her hands and arms [...]." This is not a typical sensation...
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Miss Brill is a round character because a round character is a major character in the story that is influenced by conflict and is actually changed by it. Throughout the story, the tone of the music...
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You are right in indicating that the name "Brill" seems to suggest the adjective "brilliant." My own thoughts on this matter is that the name that Mansfield gives to her protagonist reinforces the...
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Miss Brill
The description of the fur that Miss Brill swathes herself with in the first paragraph of this excellent story gives us vital clues about the character of this poor, lonely lady and the half-life...
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Miss Brill
The two settings in "Miss Brill" are Miss Brill's apartment and the Jardins Publiques. It is at the public gardens, the park, where Miss Brill seems to live the life she wants; she can listen in on...
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Miss Brill
The story "Miss Brill" is narrated from a third person omniscient point of view. This point of view consists on a narrator who detaches emotionally and personally from the story. This way, the...
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Miss Brill
Judging from the story, one would argue that Miss Brill projects someone with education but without the financial means to use her knowledge to conduct more sophisticated activities. Hers is not...
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Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield seems to use a great deal of figurative language early in the story to clue readers in to Miss Brill's highly developed imagination and the fantastical world she has created of...
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The theme of appearances and reality is of critical importance in "Miss Brill." One thing that Mansfield seeks to create in the mind of the reader is the ability to perceive oneself and one's...
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Our first clue that Miss Brill might be having some health problems is the fact that, as she walked her to park, "She felt a tingling in her hands and arms [...]." This isn't a particularly normal...
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Sadly, this is not a good thesis as it stands for several reasons. The first is that it is not written in correct English grammar. Therefore, it is not understandable. The second is that (even...
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One possible thesis statement for a comparison essay of the style of "Miss Brill" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" could be that the social expectations that are placed upon women do not gear toward...
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One noteworthy thing about all of Katherine Mansfield's writings is that she is generally less concerned about plot than she is about her characters and the themes she wants to convey. The themes...
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The scene in Miss Brill is extremely important to the story. Every Sunday, Miss Brill goes to a nearby park to people watch. She is an extremely lonely woman, yet is completely unaware of how sad...
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Miss Brill
It is hard not to feel incredibly sorry for the character of Miss Brill in this excellent short story. We are told that she teaches English and that she also reads the newspaper to an "invalid old...
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Miss Brill
The main reason why Miss Brill enjoys her Sundays in the park is because this type of distraction is the sole medium by which the expatriate English teacher, who lives alone, has a chance to feel...
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Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield's short story "Miss Brill" is a depiction of life for an older woman named, not surprisingly, Miss Brill. One key theme in this story is that of isolation. She is a quaint...
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The woman in the ermine toque and the gentlemen she is meeting are two of several characters in the “play” of life that Miss Brill enjoyed watching every day. The “ermine toque” woman is used to...
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Miss Brill
"Miss Brill" is a great story with a sad and depressing climax (high point). Miss Brill begins the story as a woman who goes out into the park near her home. While at the park, she uses her...
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Miss Brill
Miss Brill sits on a bench in the park and people-watches every Sunday. Miss Brill is a woman who likes to take part in life by proxy. She enjoys routine. She seems to come to the same park bench...
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Unfortunately, you are not allowed to ask multiple questions on enotes, so I have edited your question to focus on the climax of this tremendous short story. The problem with living life as an...
