Katherine Mansfied's Miss Brill

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This story Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfied, is a story of a women who visits the park every Sunday in France. I believe the way Miss Brill acts and behaves is like a child. Her many moods, curiosity, enjoyment, and thought leads me to believe she acts like a child. Miss Brill is a very curious person, although she keeps to a timely manner, she acts like a child. Miss Brill goes to the park every Sunday, to listen to the band. , but to mainly eavesdrop on others. “This was disappointing, for Miss Brill always looked forward to the conversation. She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her.” She looks at others and …show more content…

That was because the Season had begun. For although the band played all the year round on Sundays, out of season it was never the same.” There she goes into make-believe where she believes she is in a musical. She believes this and realizes this is why she goes to the park every Sunday. “They were all on the stage. They weren't only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting. Even she had a part and came every Sunday. No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn't been there; she was part of the performance after all. How strange she'd never thought of it like that before! And yet it explained why she made such a point of starting from home at just the same time each week - so as not to be late for the performance”. She believes she is an actress, like a small child who dreams to be a princess or an actress. She had believed the company would get up at any moment and join her to sing the song, because for she was a star.” The tune lifted, lifted, the light shone; and it seemed to Miss Brill that in another moment all of them, all the whole company, would begin singing. The young ones, the laughing ones who were moving together, they would begin, and the men's voices, very resolute and brave, would join …show more content…

She always comes to the park, depending on the season she is happy or annoyed. Miss Brill came to the park happy enjoying herself. She would get annoyed easily, like a child would.” He'd suggested everything - gold rims, the kind that curved round your ears, little pads inside the bridge. No, nothing would please her. "They'll always be sliding down my nose!" Miss Brill had wanted to shake her.” That doesn’t happen to Miss Brill all the time. She is usually happy, likes to watch everyone. As a reward at the end of the day she would buy ice cream, like a child she would get excited if an almond slice was in her ice cream, if there wasn’t she would be disappointed.” On her way home she usually bought a slice of honey-cake at the baker's. It was her Sunday treat. Sometimes there was an almond in her slice, sometimes not. It made a great difference.” The biggest thing that makes her a child is how she handled the situation with the young man and women at the park. They were whispering about her, and the young man told her to go away, she went home and started crying. “But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something

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