In the short story “Miss Brill,” by Katherine Mansfield, we are brought to a Sunday afternoon with an old elderly woman during her weekly routine to the park. The woman, Miss Brill goes to the park every Sunday to listen to the band play and enjoy the atmosphere that is around her. Miss Brill mostly relishes the chance to sit by other people to listen and watch their lives. Mansfield’s important idea that is shown through this is the theme of loneliness. The idea is developed by the use of language features to evoke Miss Brill’s emotions on how she interacts with other characters and how she perceives the world around her. This develops themes of how loneliness and rejection can cause a person to be unable to differentiate between perception and reality due to the isolation by society which clouds a person's mind and judgement.
We begin with Miss Brill at the Jardins Publiques where she describes it as “so brilliantly fine.” Miss Brill had decided to wear her fur despite how “the air was motionless.” Mansfield uses personification on the fur to help describe and…show more content… The weekly outings provides an opportunity for Miss Brill to place herself in the company of others and to leave behind "the little dark room" in which she lives in. The irony based off Miss Brill’s judgement distorts her reality of who she really is. She comes to a point where she makes stories up in her head of the people at the park and herself to excite the lonely life of living in the “dark little cupboard” which is just self deception. “I have been an actress for a long time.” This could be argued as a mindset due to Miss Brill’s loneliness and
