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Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill

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Birds chirping, the band playing and Miss Brill sitting on her bench, “Miss Brill” is a short story about a lady’s everyday life. “Miss Brill” is by Katherine Mansfield, Mansfield uses the flat characters conversations to build up Miss Brill’s own character. Mansfield uses the conversations and actions to open up Miss Brill’s character. Miss Brill is a lady who has a beloved fur but throughout the story, we get a hint to what state it really is in. Miss Brill follows the same routine every Sunday first she pulls out her fur and “shaken out the moth-powder, given it a good brush, and rubbed the life back into the eyes.” (Mansfield 65) Then she walks to a park where a band plays and she sits on “her “special” seat.” (65) After this, she just

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