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    1920 “Miss Brill” follows the Sunday strolling of a solitary elderly woman. Miss Brill dresses in a shabby fur and excitedly hurries to the public gardens in a small French town. There she watches those around her and imagines everyone in a play that she is a part of. When her Imagined scenario is shattered by two of the players Miss Brill is forced back to reality and hurries home without her traditional slice of honey cake and puts away her fur. Mansfield uses her symbolism in “Miss Brill” to turn

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    “We sometimes think we want to disappear, but all we really want is to be found.” -Unknown. In the story, “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield expresses the dealt of people’s loneliness by creating hallucinations to avoid reality, she observes people and she wants the glamorous life. Miss Brill is a people watcher, she likes to observe the lives of others and what they go through. When she sat down and observes people, she likes to think about who are these people. She observes people because she

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    my eye when referring to her character Miss Brill. Mansfield, the author of Miss Brill, shows Miss Brill having many observations, which many were contradicting. Mansfield describes the scene in such great detail that I imagined myself as being there. Mansfield made sure the reader understood the meaning and point of the short story. Mansfield created the character Miss Brill very interesting. Miss Brill couldn’t seem to focus on one thing at a time. Miss Brill seemed to be very judgmental. I noticed

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    The short story Miss Brill, depicts a changing Paris women that is built of confidence and slowly slumps to a fearful figure. The life of Miss Brill is the same on a daily occasion, and she enjoys the idea of looking at life as a theatre. The story strikes a strong interest in me because of the innocence the old woman has that most individuals lose within there later childhood years. The woman has the courage to wear an article of fur that has always been a part of her wardrobe to show her own style

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    Analysis of “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield and “A&P” by John Updike Everyone knows that emotions cloud judgements; but in the case of these two short stories, judgements also cloud judgements. In the short fiction stories “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield and “A&P” by John Updike, we see how judging others can interfere with our perception of the world. Both authors write characters whose lives fall apart because of their obscured views. In the first short story, “Miss Brill”, Katherine

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    She is an elderly woman, but she is not a “normal” old woman. "The old people sat on the bench, still as statues. Never mind, there was always the crowd to watch.” This quote shows what Miss Brill thinks about elderly people. By doing this, she is acting like a teenager, sort of immature. She likes to be different from the other elderly people or people who act like old people. In the same way, when she saw old people who were sitting on

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    stories “Miss Brill” and “The Lottery” provide a third person point of view that encaptures itself within the expositional phase of the plot. There is a layer of perceptiveness that entitles itself into interpretations of events based on the behavior of the characters and the overall environment that the author positions itself in. Deliberately, there is a condescending decision of what the author wants you to know and what they wish for you to interpret yourself. Particularly in “Miss Brill,” the author

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    Miss Brill’s character during the story is created upon her tendency to experience alternate versions of the realities before her that she prefers. This can be seen in many examples from the beginning of the story to the end, and the consistency of this character trait demonstrates that she is a static character. Miss Brill’s imaginative mind see her fur neck wrap as still living, and rather than an inanimate clothing article, it is a sort of companion. As she takes the fur out of its box, she imagines

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    In the story “Miss Brill” written by Kathrine Mansfield demonstrated to me that many women are capable of being independent. There are many women out there that start living on their own and gradually learn life survival. Ms. Brill is a lonely, elderly woman who is caught within her fantasy that the world is a play, but is soon thrusted back into the harsh realm of reality. Ms. Brill has a constant regime that she abides by as she gets up every Sunday morning to go to the park and observe conversations

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    The comparison between the protagonist Miss Brill and Evelyn: In the short story “Miss Brill” by Mansfield the protagonist is holding onto the past. She has delusions of what her life once was, and tries to look at the presence. However, in the short story “Eveline,” by Joyce, Eveline the protagonist is trying to hold onto the future and deny the past. Both characters, however, in the end, lose hold of their fantasies and have to face reality. Miss Brill learns of her delusion when she is out at

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