Abstract

Miss Brill was brought out, in 1922, in collection of short stories of Mansfield, entitled “The Garden Party”. It is about a woman's day out to a park, where from a park bench, she watches a crowd. The enduring popularity of story is owed to its use of a stream-of-consciousness narrative to some extent wherein character of Miss Brill is divulged via her thoughts regarding people in the park. As a writer, the talent of Mansfield is portrayed by the fact that at no point, she accounts what Miss Brill is reflecting about her own life, however, one of the most concise but complete portrayals of character, in twentieth-century short fiction, is drawn by the story. It has turned out to be one of most popular stories of Mansfield and has been reprinted in several collections and anthologies. Miss Brill is typical of style of Mansfield; she often used stream-of-consciousness narrative so as to illustrate the psychological complication of day by day experience in lives of her characters.

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Analysis of Short Story through Evaluation

Introduction

This paper analyzes a short story of Katherine Mansfield - Miss Brill, through evaluation. Katherine Mansfield is considered as one of the best English short story writers, savors lasting reputation and a fairly remarkable literary status. The story in question- Miss Brill is regarded as one of the finest pieces of short fiction of Katherine Mansfield because of its remarkable richness and uniqueness. Miss Brill is such an innovative work of Mansfield that integrates most of her major themes including: disenchantment, isolation, and the difference among anticipations and reality. The story is about how the central character of the story, a woman with the name of Miss Brill, elderly, most likely widowed, desolate, obstinately withstands an almost unavoidable fate, yet is at last ...