Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill

In "Miss Brill," Katherine Mansfield shows us a view of a first seemingly young or vibrant woman whom enjoys her Sunday afternoons. The setting of the park tells an accounting of the repetitive social interactions of the same people or “actors” as Miss Brill fantasizes them.
The story begins with the façade of a possibly young woman scoffing the boring acts of the “old” people around her. Really Miss Brills accounting of her environment is a sad attempt to transform the conversations and events around her as to be revolving in attention to her. When in reality Miss Brill is an old woman fantasizing acts to make her own world seem grand. She seems the equivalent of a lonely old person in a nursing home clinging to the thought of another life. Therefore she is able to recreate her own version of a life envisioned before being crushed by reality.
On this day she transforms her reality of being a lonely women in a park into an actress in a stage play. She discovers in her mind that all the usual park goers are actors as well. This representation allows for her to replace the idea of being obsolete with a self-purpose. She states, “ no doubt someone would have noticed if she hadn’t been there, she was part of the performance after all”. This shows her mechanism of coping with being an unnoticed citizen in her world. She also reinforces this coping mechanism by reassuring her self she arrives at the park every week at the same time for this