Miss Brill
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Miss Brill is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published the Athenaeum on 26 November 1920, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories.[1]
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[edit] Plot summary
The story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It follows her on a regular Sunday afternoon in the park, which she spends walking and sitting in the park, wearing an old but beloved eiderdown fur. She sees the world as if it were a stage, and enjoys watching the people around her. However, she then overhears a young couple's remark about herself, and the story ends with her realizing that she is not really needed in the busy world.
[edit] Characters
- Miss Brill, an English teacher
- many other passers-by
[edit] Major themes
- loneliness
- illusion versus reality
- rejection
[edit] Literary significance
The text is written in the modernist mode, third-person limited point of view, without a set structure
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes
[edit] External links
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