Miss Brill is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield.
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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 man's remark about herself, and the story ends with her crying over her fur.
Characters
- Miss Brill, an English teacher
- many other passers-by
Major themes
- loneliness
- illusion versus reality
- rejection
Literary significance
The text is written in the modernist mode, stream-of-conscious, without a set structure
Trivia
It was first published the Anthenaeum on 26 November 1920, and later reprinted in The Garden Party and Other Stories.[1]
Footnotes
- ^ Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes
External links
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| Short stories |
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Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding | The Woman At The Store | How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped | Millie | Something Childish But Very Natural | The Little Governess | Revelations | The Escape | An Indiscreet Journey | The Wind Blows | Prelude | Mr Reginald Peacock's Day | Feuille d'Album | A Dill Pickle | Je ne parle pas français | Sun and Moon | Bliss | Psychology | Pictures | The Man Without a Temperament | The Stranger | Miss Brill | The Daughters of the Late Colonel | Life of Ma Parker | The Young Girl | Mr and Mrs Dove | Her First Ball | The Singing Lesson | Bank Holiday | An Ideal Family | The Lady's Maid | Marriage à la Mode | At The Bay | The Voyage | A Married Man's Story | The Garden Party | The Doll's House | The Fly | A Cup of Tea | The Canary |
