Miss. Brill : The Character Analysis Of Miss Bill

Mildred Pierce, by James M. Cain, begins in pre-Depression California, and ends during World War II times, also in California. The main character, Mildred Pierce, is a very attractive housewife of 29, raising two daughters, Ray and Veda. Although Mildred loves both her daughters, Veda is a particular obsession with Mildred. She constantly slaves away throughout the novel to do whatever she can to make Veda happy, despite the constant abuse and deception Veda inflicts upon Mildred. After a divorce from her first husband, Bert, in the opening pages of the novel, Mildred is forced to sacrifice her pride and become a waitress in order to support her family. If Veda were ever to find out, she would be appalled; a constantly recurring

A reason why Mrs Birling is an unsympathetic character is that she cares more about presentation than she does for people. The demonstration of her high-handedness towards her children immediately makes her unlikeable. She criticized Sheila for describing Eric as “squiffy”: ‘What an expression Sheila’. Mrs Birling is more concerned with Sheila’s low appearance standards than the welfare of her son. Even her husband’s bad manners do not escape Sybil Birling: when he compliments the cook, she quips back with saying ‘Arthur you’re not supposed to say such things’. This proposes that Sybil Birling is intent on following the rules of social etiquette, and concerned with superficial behaviour rather than her children’s morality. Due to the fact

She was this peppy, happy girl who wanted to visit her boyfriend, Mark Fossie. She would not want to learn how to shoot or wear a necklace with tongues when she first visits. Then, she started changing her appearance, attitude when she began to hang out more with Greenies and learned how to fight and shoot. She lost her innocence and herself because she is not the same girl as she was when she first visited

Within the story The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mants by W. D. Wetherell, there is a particular self-absorbent, lethargic character by the name of Sheila Mants. Evidence for such claims can be found throughout the story. One of these various examples would be “Eric said I have the figure to model, but I thought I should get an education first. I mean, it might be awhile before I get started and all. I was thinking of getting my hair styled, more swept back”. Sheila Mants is being taken to a concert by the narrator on a canoe and she continues to talk about herself through the entire canoe ride. She rarely allows the narrator to interject or add their opinion like the self-absorbed person she is. Besides being self-absorbed, Sheila Mants is

The appearance of the main character plays probably the most crucial role in the foundation of her personality. From the description given by the author, it is seen that she is a good-looking young girl with long blond hair. She liked spending time in front of the mirror, examining herself from head to toes. She knew that she was beautiful and this knowledge also provided her with a sense of superiority over her

She allows herself to believe all she is told. She also allows herself to believe that being treated as she is is going to make her better, when in fact it is only making her worse. Her being sent up in a room, like a penitentiary will add loneliness to her illness. Her being told not to write or not to go and see family and friends, again, adds to her loneliness. She is separated from society. Therefore, she feels as though she is alone in society. She gives into the fact that the male-dominated society would rather her alone, than be with lots of women and cause chaos. She gives into everything the world wants instead of listening to her inner self. She ignores herself, causing her to act out in madness. When one does not listen to one's inner self, he or she is then turning away from his or her conscience. It's like the "devil and angel" episode that has been seen in numerous cartoons. If the person listens to the little devil, it will end up being the wrong decision. It the person listens to the little angel, it will be the right decision. The narrator listens to almost neither. She allows what is happening to happen and does nothing but sit back. This would cause anger inside anyone.

In the book Coppers sun , written by Sharon M. Draper, Amari, who is a 15 year olds girl, lives in Africa with her mother, father, brother, and her soon to be husband Besa. At the beginning of the book she is happy and outgoing, but throughout the novel her character beings to change to a sorrowful person. Her character changes due to being taken from her family, getting abused and raped, and her being separated from Besa. Amari and her family live in a small village, Ziavi, with many other Africans. She loves the rusty brown dirt of Ziavi, and the sweet Smell of fruit­laden mango trees would always seem to welcome her home.

From the first scene to the last, she shows her obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. As defined by Rathus, this disorder is categorized by the person’s “inflexibility and fixation on rules,

In the Bedford Introduction to Literature, Characterization is defined as "... the process by which a writer makes that character seem real to the reader"(2126). In order to do this a writer has multiple tools at their disposal that add to the depth of a character and simplify roles in a story. This includes the use of Protagonists and Antagonists, static and dynamic characters, showing and telling, and motivated and plausible action, as well as many others. The short story "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield is no exception to this and displays the main character of Miss Brill as the protagonist, who is confronted with the reality of her existence.

This is seen when she started swimming and “a feeling of exultation overtook her, as if some power of significant import had been given her to control the working of her body and her soul. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before” (pg. 31) It can be seen how she’s not content with following everyone else, and instead has to break free from the pack and do her own thing. But, this comes back to bite her as she’s not strong enough to maintain this rebellion forever. She eventually becomes depressed and bipolar. She talks about how some days “she was very happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing . . . she liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places” but “there were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why—when it did not seem worth while . . . to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation” (pg. 64). It is seen how some days she is super happy because she is free from everything, but then it shown how she is sad and depressed because of the terrible situations she put herself into. All of these things add up and she runs out of ways to avoid the problems in her life so she just ends up killing

 Her attitude changes threw out the play, she’s very confident in the beginning, she doesn’t really talk back to anyone, but as it goes on her attitude changes and she’s very upset all the time and depressed.

Personally I do not like Mrs. Dubose very much at all. I just think that she is a rude old woman that has an addiction, and I don’t really respect people very much if they have an addiction. Once I hear that someone is addicted to something that does it for me and they could be the nicest person in the whole world, but I don’t think I would look at them the same anymore. I don’t even understand why she is so mean to the children when they walk by her like for example she says, “Don’t say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs. Dubose” (page 133). They did nothing to her so there is no reason for her to be rude to them. I do believe with Atticus’s assessment that she is the bravest person he ever met because she was trying to

She is no different than the lady with the ermine toque who is happy with any type of interaction or conversation then moving on to the next one (paragraph 8) and even if she tries to fit in with those around her, she sticks out. Her realization is depicted when she returns home by skipping her slice of cake, putting her fur away, and crying (paragraph

and I don't think she likes it at all. When her mother and father would fight she would always hide under her sheet because she never liked watching. When her father impregnated her she went off into a wonderland of her own becoming insane. Which is not hard to do at all considering she had been through a lot at that point in her life. I think ten words that describe her are shy, brave, ugly, embarrassed, nervous, abandoned, helpless, shy, poor,and mysterious.

When the characters in the play are silent, Miss Brill imagines what they must be saying. However, their silence makes eavesdropping on their lives quite difficult (Wilson 2: 145). She also has a tendency to judge the characters, seeing them in ways that others in the garden likely view her. For instance, she finds many of the older people in the garden “odd, silent, nearly all old, and from the way they stared they looked as though