Miss Bill

Miss Brill is a story that focuses around a woman that is living in her own little world. Besides every day of the week being an English teacher she is always waiting for that one special day of her life which is Sunday were she goes to a park in her home of France. When she goes she likes to wear a fox fur which has been put away for a very long time but she fancies up just to get it all nice and in great shape. When she goes to the park though she does not talk to people, instead she does an annoying thing, she listens to their conversations. She listens to many couples like an old married couple, two soldiers and to fair ladies, and also a young couple. Miss Brill is a little bit on the everything is fixated on you phase, for she believes that she is an actress and the park is her show and the people will miss her if she is not their to take part. She soon changes though as soon as the young couple says a couple of rude things like that she doesn’t belong and that nobody wants her around. So she goes home taking her fox fur with her which has been a soul connection to herself for she believes that it cries sometimes from being put away. She feels that the fox fur cries but the symbolism in it is that it is symbolizing her being shut out from the world as an alone and sad old woman.

We view the people and events of "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield almost entirely through the eyes and feelings of its protagonist. The author relies upon indirect presentation for her characterization of Miss Brill. Write as full of an account as you can of the nature and temperament of the story's main character.