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Miss Brill By Katherine Mansfield

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Katherine Mansfield, born in New Zealand and attended Queen’s College at the age of nineteen, in her short story, “Miss Brill”, published in 1922, writes about a middle-aged women who experiences a dramatic moment at a park she frequently visits that defines her realty. The author supports her four main themes of: loneliness, youth, reality and delusion by describing moments of judgement, curiosity, imaginative, and optimistic from the protagonist, Miss Brill. Mansfield’s purpose is to illustrate the revelation to Miss Brill, destruction of her universal illusion, and to bring forth the “cupboard” symbol of her loneliness and shame into reality. She establishes a calm and formal tone for her audience, the readers of “Miss Brill”. EVALUATION …show more content…

It felt like the author might have been on to something to twist the path of the reader. Miss Brill has been recognizing all these positives human interactions she’s been seeing around her, however, in this scene, she notices quite opposite. Mansfield projects a boy that picked up fallen flowers from a lady, for those same flowers to be thrown away. She also depicts a man nearly falling over. Not everyone she see is so glamorous and while she is good at observing others, she lacks in understanding how others might think of her. After all that has gone by, the climax reaches and Miss Brill is done by a young couple who talks very negatively of her. The foreshadowing displayed earlier with the other folks has ultimately led to this unfortunate ending for Miss Brill and the imaginative world of

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