Mrs Brill Analysis
Katherine Mansfield presents the story of “Mrs. Brill” as a tale told in post World War 1 France. About a old school teacher who has no one to call a friend. She has found a passion for her time at the local park, people watching. But that will all come to an end when a young man is insensitive to her feelings. “Mrs Brill” goes through one major change that takes place over the whole short story. She is first, a person who feels they are apart of the worlds story, to then be a person who feels they do not belong. “Mrs Brill” loves to sit in the park and listen to the band play.Mrs Brill visits to the park are what makes her feel like she has an escape to the rest of the world. She is sitting in the park waiting for an interesting person
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She starts to make up story about them. Mansfield writes, “The hero and heroine, of course, just arrived from his father's yacht. And still soundlessly singing, still with that trembling smile” Mrs Brill is so happy to have more interesting people to join her play. At first the couple is seen as the perfect pair but once Mrs Brill starts listening in on their conversation they are fighting. This throws away Mrs Brill perfect story about the couple. The couple starts to mock Mrs Brill together which seems to end there fight. After that moment Mrs Brill can no longer feel like she belongs in the world, that she is special.Mrs Brill delusion that she had built comes tumbling down. Her beloved fur coat becomes the joke. Mrs Brill starts to see the world in a different way. She is no longer as happy, she no longer enjoys all of her normal things. The young boy woke her up to a harsh reality that she was not ready to face. She starts to see herself as a old lonely women. When she puts the coat back into its box it like she is accepting what the young man said as the truth. She has been rejected from the world. And as Mansfield writes, “But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying.” What Mrs Brill is hearing is her life being put into a lonely box. Because that coat represented her love for life and made her feel as though she was a part of the story. When the young boy
She starts to make up story about them. Mansfield writes, “The hero and heroine, of course, just arrived from his father's yacht. And still soundlessly singing, still with that trembling smile” Mrs Brill is so happy to have more interesting people to join her play. At first the couple is seen as the perfect pair but once Mrs Brill starts listening in on their conversation they are fighting. This throws away Mrs Brill perfect story about the couple. The couple starts to mock Mrs Brill together which seems to end there fight. After that moment Mrs Brill can no longer feel like she belongs in the world, that she is special.Mrs Brill delusion that she had built comes tumbling down. Her beloved fur coat becomes the joke. Mrs Brill starts to see the world in a different way. She is no longer as happy, she no longer enjoys all of her normal things. The young boy woke her up to a harsh reality that she was not ready to face. She starts to see herself as a old lonely women. When she puts the coat back into its box it like she is accepting what the young man said as the truth. She has been rejected from the world. And as Mansfield writes, “But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying.” What Mrs Brill is hearing is her life being put into a lonely box. Because that coat represented her love for life and made her feel as though she was a part of the story. When the young boy