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Miss Brill
Miss Brill doesn't really "deal with" reality—at least, not until the very end of the story. Initially, she imagines that her little fox fur is alive, even referring to it as a "Little rogue," as...
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Miss Brill
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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Miss Brill
Miss Brill is probably a woman who is slightly past middle age because she seems rather old-fashioned, wearing a necklet that she has owned for some time. She also ranks other people that she sees...
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Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield's two stories, "Miss Brill" and "Frau Brechenmacher" certainly illustrate the solitary states of both the main characters. For, these women are alone even when they are...
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Miss Brill
A flat character is one who is typically fairly easy to describe; she can be summed up in a few sentences because she is not terribly complex. Miss Brill, herself, is a flat character. She is an...
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Miss Brill
From her thoughts, we can tell that Miss Brill lives inside her own head and doesn’t really engage with the world. One of the first hints that Miss Brill does not like to interact with others,...
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Miss Brill
At the beginning of the story, Miss Brill is old fashioned but whimsical. She clearly has a ritual where she walks to the park and listens to the band play each Sunday, and she decides to wear her...
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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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Miss Brill
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
Katherine Mansfield is renowned for her stories of lonely women, and Miss Brill is probably one of the most well-known. This is a story of little action but of deep character development; Mansfield...
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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 theme of loneliness in "Miss Brill" is timeless. Certainly, there are lonely people nowadays, as there are also older people who feel marginalized by society. Perhaps today there are even more...
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Miss Brill
The implication of this need is that Miss Brill really has nothing going on in her life; she is not truly needed by anyone or cared about by anyone. In imagining that everyone and everything...
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Miss Brill
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
We learn that Miss Brill doesn't really have a great deal to do and that she is essentially alone. Each Sunday, she goes to the park to listen to a band, but she mostly looks forward to...
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Miss Brill
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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Miss Brill
"Miss Brill" conveys several themes, but the most important one is that human beings feel a deep-seated need to belong, and this need is so powerful that it can prompt us to create elaborate...
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Miss Brill
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
Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill is truly a story of denial. The main character is in complete denial of the loneliness and isolation from which she suffers. Throughout the story, she people...
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Miss Brill
Miss Brill sees herself as having a part in the Sunday concerts that she attends. Further, she is not realistic about herself as she engages in interior monologue. Miss Brill feels that she is an...
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Miss Brill
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
In Katherine Mansfield's short story "Miss Brill", the eponymous main character is certainly a social outcast in several ways. Loner While this may sound like a harsh descriptor, in reality, Miss...
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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
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
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
"Miss Brill" follows an older woman who lives in France as she goes on her traditional Sunday outing to the park. Once there, she begins to eavesdrop on the people around her and thinks that her...
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Miss Brill
Miss Brill, a British expatriate who teaches English in France, leads quite a lonesome life in her adopted country. From what the reader learns, Miss Brill has made a habit of going to the public...
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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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Miss Brill
Miss Brill, who lives a single and solitary life, finds a sense of fulfillment in her acts of observing and critiquing others at the Jardins Publiques [Public Gardens] where she "sit[s] in other...
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Miss Brill
The text of the story does not flat out explain why Miss Brill treats her fur the way that she does. The reader must infer that information based on other character traits of Miss Brill. She is...
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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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Miss Brill
I think if "Miss Brill" were written today, nothing would have to be changed. The story works then and now the same, because its central character is an out of fashion old lady who people-watches...
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Miss Brill
The end of the short story "Miss Brill" is "open". This means that there is no concise ending to the story, and the reader can make assumptions as to what happens next. The story comes to a halt...
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Miss Brill
The conclusion of Katherine Mansfield's short story "Miss Brill" occurs after the eponymous main character has spent her usual Sunday at the public garden, watching people and making up stories...
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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
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
Miss Brill does come to a realization about her life and habits. At the Jardin Publique, after she overhears the young man ridiculing her and the girl mocking her fur, her dream-world in which she...
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Miss Brill
To begin, the narrative is full of fresh and invigorating imagery, and the narrator playfully mimics Miss Brill's own tone when describing anything. The "blue sky [is] powdered with gold and great...
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Miss Brill
The central conflict of the story "Miss Bill" stems from the main character's inability to live in her "here and now". Her dire circumstances, her loneliness, and her inability to connect with he...
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Miss Brill
Miss Brill is an aging, lonely teacher from England who has moved to Paris to teach English. She also reads to the elderly (we presume this is a voluntary activity), and exists in what is known as...
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Miss Brill
When the story begins, Miss Brill is quite excited to get started with her Sunday routine. She will go to the jardins publiques, or the public park, and she will spend the afternoon looking at...
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Miss Brill
The mood, emotional coloring or meaning, of "Miss Brill" is one of ambivalence because of shifting perspectives. In this slice of life story, there are several instances in which there are...
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Miss Brill
Awesome question! While the overall story preserves a third person, omniscient narrator that continuously talks about the ins and outs of Miss Brill, most of what is said comes from Brill's own...
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Miss Brill
Miss Brill is both an actor and a spectator in the imaginary world that she fashions around the people observed at the Sunday concerts which she attends. With respect to Miss Brill, author...
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Miss Brill
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
In his one-act drama, Huis Clos [No Exit], the Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre creates a hotel hell of rooms garishly decorated in Second Empire furniture. In one room devoid of mirrors, three...
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Miss Brill
While in one respect there is a separation of the settings of Miss Brill's little dark "cupboard" of a room and the public park, the Jardin Publique, there is also an intermingling of these scenes...
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Miss Brill
What changes in Miss Brill is her self-perception, a perception symbolized with the fur necklet that she inspects after pulling it from its box. "'What has been happening to me?' said the sad...
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Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield’s 1920 short story “Miss Brill” is about loneliness and self-delusion, and about the fragility of one so isolated yet yearning to be a part of the world around her....
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Miss Brill
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...
