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Rhianon Mail
English 081-AB2
January 20, 2015

To open there are a few main things that I feel lead Miss Brill to her loneliness, the fact that she is judgmental, delusional, an eavesdropper. A couple examples of her judgmental way of seeing others is the way she described the "two peasant women with funny straw hats "(836), or how she described the Englishman from the week before with his “dreadful Panama”(836). When someone becomes judgmental it tends to make others not want to get to know you, which leads to being lonely in my opinion. Miss Brill is shows her delusional way by how she "nearly laughed out loud" (837), as she thought of how she was a character in the play that takes place every Sunday. When a person is constantly in their head it tends to make them unapproachable. The fact that Miss Brill likes listening in makes her an eavesdropper, her feeling that she has "become really quite expert…at listening as though she didn’t listen" (835).When you become a “professional” listener, it shows how lonely you can really be. Another thing that can tell us she is lonely is that she is called “miss” not “misses” which gives us the illusion of her never being married. Not being married in the early 1900s was considered a really bad thing, it gave the impression that a woman wasn’t good enough to have a husband. All these are why I personally feel she has become a very lonely person.

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