Miss Brill's Loneliness

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Miss Brill’s loneliness plays a major role in her dynamic character. Her way of comforting her loneliness is by “sitting in others lives”(358) this made her feel a part of something she wasn’t. Her way of comforting her loneliness changed her mentally, She had become “quite an expert” in inserting herself into others’ lives . “[Miss Brill] always looked forward to conversations” (358) ,so she could insert herself into them and judge them. Her obsession with being a part of something had blinded her vision of reality, and how people portray her. She would become a hypocrite ; for example, she called elders sitting on the bench “statues” while doing the same thing. Miss Brill was flabbergasted when she heard the boy call her “ a stupid