Miss Brill Symbolism

Miss Brill created a fantasy life to escape her lonely one and is heartbroken when she is brought back to reality. In the first paragraph, the fox fur is almost like a friend to her. She treated it as though it is still alive referring to it as a “dear little thing!” (Mansfield para 1). She is constantly alone but always manages to make herself feel oppositely. Every Sunday, while walking alone at the park, she witnesses what she call a ‘play’..’ She is always “listening as though she didn’t listen” and “sitting in other people’s lives just for a minute while they talked round her,” (Mansfield para 3). Miss Brill considers herself part of the ‘play’ and that “even she had a part and came every Sunday” (Mansfield para 19). “No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn’t been there; she was part of the play after all” (Mansfield para 19). However, she is devastated when the only thing she considers herself to be attached to, her fur, is insulted by the girl. She went home that day, alone like always, and quickly put down her fur lining back into the box as “she heard someone crying” (Mansfield para 18). The person crying is Miss Brill and she is alone when she does it, just like she is throughout the whole

One of the most vital elements of the story though is the classification of Miss Brill as a dynamic character. Being a dynamic character entail that the knowledge about the character grows and that some kind of change takes place because of the action occurring in the plot. In "Miss Brill" this hinges on the fact that Miss Brill spends her time alone, with almost no actual human contact. Her only means of living life is through that of those around her, she watches their actions, listens to their conversations and acts like a hidden parasite, drawing her own meaning in life by observing others, or as she put it "... there was always the crowd to watch" (Mansfield 259).

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In the passage “Hairs,” Sandra Cisneros uses a Childlike style to create the effect of comfort. First, Cisneros uses improper sentence structure, such as using the run on sentence “But my mother’s hair…. And Papa’s snoring.” These intentional sentence errors resembles the type of errors a child would make because they are not yet trained to follow these rules. Also, the narrator uses simple diction comparing her mother’s hair to “little candy circles.”

In the story we see the narrator symbolize Fleur like an animal when she said that “her hips fishlike, slippery, narrow,” and “Her braids were thick like the tails of animals,” (Erdrich 3178). Those two symbols make the reader think why the narrator is making that comparison,

Her actions are somewhat different than Emily’s. She is infatuated with her fur. She takes it out of the box, strokes it, and gives it a voice that speaks to her. She imagines that she is “rubbing life back into the fox’s eyes” (Mansfield 606). She wears the fur every Sunday when she walks to the park and as she walks, she continues to talk to the fur along the way.

In “Miss Brill,” Katherine Mansfield uses indirect characterization to demonstrate how loneliness can distort a person’s perception of the world and leave one vulnerable when confronting the truth.

She runs home and discarding both her treasured fur scarf back into the box and her ideal of being valued. “But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying”. In contrast to the other three texts where obsession with illusion brings destruction to the character and the blame and judgement falls on the character, in this text the blame and the judgement falls on how society treats the elderly and the poor. It is not Miss Brill's fault for wanting to be valued, but the consequence of shattered illusion is just as

In her essay, Beard leads the readers into the setting by introducing the different, closely observed scenes. The very first thing she describes is the collie, “She’s staring

Likewise, Miss Brill imagines herself in a different situation. "They were all on the stage. They weren't only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting. Even she had a part and came every Sunday. No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn't been there; she was part of the performance after all" (740). In this story, the woman finds herself acting as if she is part of a play. She notes the

Miss Brill is a single woman, probably in her mid to late fifties. She lives alone in a very small space without even a cat or bird. She has a collection of vintage clothing. Her physical appearance is only alluded to in the 18-paragraph short story by Mansfield, but in reading about a day in her life, one has the impression of an intelligent, sensitive

This quote shows again that Miss Brill takes joy in being an observer of her surroundings. This suggests that she may be trying to distract herself from her own loneliness because she tries to stay included and feel like she is a necessary person who is an integral part of others’ daily lives. This contributes to the meaning that society has a lack of care for these type of people because no one in the surroundings really care

Shenli Song College of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang Gongshang University Office of Foreign Language College at Zhejiang Gongshang University Xia Sha City-University-Town, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang, China E-mail: windyforever@gmail.com Abstract Katherine Mansfield, remembered as one of the finest writers of English short stories, enjoys enduring fame and a somewhat awesome literary status with her short stories, Miss Brill as one of her representative pieces. The interest of our Chinese critics, in general, locates more in the modernist techniques and devices she employs to present the inner world of the characters in her stories,

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