Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill

Lots of humans during the day have a tendency to drift off into the state of fantasy, because one’s life’s struggles are difficult. According to Katherine Mansfield in “Miss Brill” the protagonist, who is Miss Brill, is teaching in France and decides to go to the park for a concert, to notice the surroundings. In the brief story, the author uses a natural integral setting, with a third person limited omniscient, an external conflict and imagery/personification language to suggest a central idea that when a person who fantasizes on events going on in reality causes life to seem more enjoyable then life actually turns out to be.
Firstly, the author uses a nature integral setting to show how lonely the protagonist is in France. At the park to illustrate, “She had become really quite expert, …, at sitting in other people’s lives just for a minute while they talked round her”(126). This comes around with the lack of others to talk to all the

After episodes twisting real into fantasy, a young couple sit by and exclaim the hard truth. Namely, a young boy said, “Why does she come here at all-who wants her?”(128). Once hearing that real hash statement the protagonist fantasy world came crashing down, then hurried home. To illustrate, “But today she passed the baker’s by, went into the little dark room-her room like a cupboard- and sat down…”(129). Upon dashing home, the readers notice an external conflict Miss Brill and society.
Interestingly, the protagonist is having a difficulty with an external conflict against the whole of society. While sitting on the bench, people and pets are acting like in a play but paying little to no attention. For instance, “But he shook his head, lighted a cigarette, slowly breathed a great deep puff into her face…then walked away”(127). Whole of society is concerned for young generations while elders just fade