Why Is Miss Brill Lonely

“Doe season” is a short literary work featured in one of Kaplan's popular collections. “Doe Season” may be short in length relative to other types of literature, but exhibits a deep, underlying meaning that burrows deeper than the story itself. One of the key components to the creation of “Doe Season” is the symbolism it displays. The title itself is very symbolic, as well as the descriptive writing used in this short work. While “Doe Season” takes place in a common setting, traversing the woods while hunting, a few aspects of the story are unique in the sense that the story is told from a 9-year-old girl's perspective. While hunting has long been seen as a man's task or hobby, this story follows

Montag spends the rest of the rainy afternoon uneasily reading through books while Millie sits idly. As he reads, Montag is often reminded of Clarisse. Meanwhile, the already edgy couple is alarmed by a scratching at the door. Millie dismisses it as "just a dog", but Montag knows it is the Mechanical Hound. Luckily, the Hound leaves without causing a disturbance. Millie whines that there is no reason to read books and that that their house will be burned down if anyone finds out. Montag responds with a passionate rant, asserting that they really have no concept of what is going on in the world and that those who seek to learn are quickly quieted, just like Clarisse and the old woman. He talks of the ongoing wars and how people all over the

She describes a pond with “water lilies [that] blossomed and spread to a green horizontal plane” and a tree that “makes a dry, upholstered bench at the upper, marshy end of the pond.” Dillard utilizes nature as a motif in the essay because it is a weasel’s habitat. The scenic environment also makes it clearer to picture Dillard’s confrontation. Thus, readers easily relate to how Dillard feels when she describes her thoughts during and after viewing the weasel. In addition, the imagery appeals to Dillard’s specific audience. People who enjoy the outdoors and appreciate nature make up the audience. They are able to understand the main idea of the essay better than people who live in the city. Those who live in the city would not fathom how a woman can view a weasel as inspiration to

Winnie sighed. She had been waiting for Mr. Scamander to come back for a few hours. The minute he had left, she started wandering around, looking at the beautiful, strange creatures around her. But she began to get bored. Not that anyone could get bored of these animals, each one was as fantastic as the one before. She was bored because she was a people person, and she had no one to talk to, unless you counted the jarvey, which Winnie certainly did not. So after a few minutes, she found her way back to the room she had originally fallen into. She sat right beside the ladder, glancing up every few minutes, hoping that he would come. She didn’t know how long it took to get to Saint-Pierre, but she imagined it couldn’t be longer than half a day.

"In the Park" and "More" show the negatives of belonging and not belonging, the former through a pessimistic tone and choice of diction, and the latter through repetition and the juxtaposition of colour. "More" shows the main character's lack of belonging through the absence of any form of connection to others, with the closest form of interaction being criticism from its boss. The director uses repetition of dull activities such as waking up, working and sleeping while maintaining close-ups of discouraged facial expressions to illustrate the lack of meaning in one's life without belonging. "In the Park" shows the dissatisfaction of the female main character's life through an ongoing pessimistic tone, which describes her children's actions with words such as "whine", "bicker" and "aimless" and associates the children as problems due to belonging to a family.

To understand the main ideas of the story, you must know the plot. A guy named Montag, as we have gone over, is a fireman working in an unnamed city. He meets Clarisse, who is a gentle 17-year-old girl with great insight. Clarisse tells him, “White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days” (page 9). This shows how people have ignored nature and have begun to forget about nature and even arrest you for wanting to enjoy

Annie Dillard begins by comparing man vs nature to show how our freedom to choose has caused us to ruin our surroundings. She begins to describe the area by the pond to show how peaceful and clean nature is while society is messy and chaotic. She says that “Under every bush is a muskrat hole or a beer can.” this shows how society thinks

The air was crisp and clean, as it was a mild autumn day. Throughout the forest, the sounds of nature could be heard. Birds chirping, leaves falling off trees in the midday breeze. The calm sounds of the woods gave way to a new sound: the gentle humming of a young female wanderer, on a quest to visit her grandmother. She quite enjoyed the sounds and view of the forest, as it was her favorite thing to surround herself with as she was growing up in the village not far from the forest edge. As she strolled through the winding paths of the forest road, she thought of the wonderful experiences of the day ahead with her grandmother.

Running into the woods Sarah’s eyes fell on familiar sights. Trees she had climbed as a little girl, old trails her father had made, the old stream she loved to sit by and read poetry. Sweet, delicate memories flowed into her mind like warm, caressing fingers attached from loving angels, as Todd pulled her deeper into the woods. The world outside the community is exciting…but this is my home,” Sarah thought as Todd hurried slowed down to help her step over a fallen log

Annie got the freedom of the streets, from her mother, as soon as she could say her telephone number. She memorized the neighborhood, making a mental map of it in her head and rehearsed it while she was in bed, picturing herself making turns onto different streets on her bike. She loved this boy who played football, but only spoke to him once in two years, so nothing happened there. Also Annie disobeyed her father’s wish to not go to Frick Park, but her mother let her as long as she did not tell her father. At Frick Park she started to learn more about wildlife by getting a bird book from the library and seeing how many she could spot at the park. She never met anyone at the park, but she would think about if a bum did come up to her she would

The protagonists of "Miss Brill" and "You're Ugly Too" share common occurrences related to their isolation. Both women are educators that are displaced from their place of origin: Miss Brill teaches English in France but is originally from New Zealand, and Zoe Hendricks is a history teacher in rural Illinois originally from the Northeast United States. Neither Miss Brill nor Zoe are able to build any kind of meaningful relationships with their students or peers. It is ambiguously illustrated in "Miss Brill" that Miss Brill does not relate to her students: "...She had a queer, shy feeling at telling her English pupils how she spent her Sunday afternoons" . It is more directly stated how Zoe relates to her students. "Once she had pampered

This quote shows Miss Brill’s loneliness. Rather than conversing with the people around her, she decides to have a conversation with her fur coat, an inanimate object. This contributes to the meaning of the book because this detail helps establish how the story will continue and dictate how she and others will act, which serves as the basis for the story’s meaning.

In the story "Miss Brill," an old, lonely lady spends her Sunday observing people in a park. Although ignored by everyone around her, Miss Brill manages to convince herself that she is really an integral part of the scene and would be missed if she weren't there. Her illusion is shattered by a chance remark at the end of the story, and she returns home, clearly devastated by her new understanding of her place in life. What this story is trying to illustrate is that sometimes people can be happy through living in an illusion. However, this kind of happiness is fragile and can be easily destroyed.

Katherine Mansfield’s short story, Miss Brill, is a well-written story of an elderly, unmarried woman in Europe. In Miss Brill, Katherine Mansfield uses stream-of-consciousness point of view to show alienation and loneliness, appearances and reality, and Miss Brill’s perceptions as she attempts to make herself fit in with the park goers. Miss Brill is an older lady who makes a living teaching English to school children and reading newspapers to an “old invalid gentleman” (Wilson 2: 139). Her joy in life comes in her visits to the park on Sunday where she is notorious for “sitting in on other people’s lives” (Wilson 2: 140). It is there that her ritualistic, monotonous journey that Miss Brill refers to as a “play” takes place.

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,