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Miss Brill Character Analysis

Introduction

Katherine Mansfield Miss Brill describes an aging English teacher who routinely visits the Jardins Publiques. The park is where Miss Brill spends her delightful Sunday afternoons visiting with the people whom she hardly knows. Miss Brill lacks self-awareness and no information is offered about her apparently empty life. Miss Brill is starving for tenderness and companionship. The lack of children and husband echoes her need for warmth and compassion. Mansfield uses Miss Brill actions to illustrate her suffering, pain and bitter loneliness and shows her attempts to experience life through total strangers and their life experiences. ...