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Essay on Conflict in Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield | ||
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This is the first 1,000 characters of 397 words (1.59 pages) in the essay titled Conflict in Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield’s short story “Miss Brill” outlines an old woman’s lack of understanding for a world that she observes so intimately. The story is told from the point of view of an aging insignificant character, who on this particular Sunday is cruelly forced to see herself in a different light. This essay will study Miss Brill’s forced development, and the conflict(s) she must face in this story.The story is so completely the language Miss Brill uses to describe her world, that it is left difficult to discuss. In fact, the inclination is to just quote the brilliantly written sentences. The protagonist on the other hand, Miss Brill herself, is not brilliant at all. Miss Brill is the audience to a ‘play’ pretending like she is starring in it, when really she is barely one of the most insignificant roles. “No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn’t been there; she was part of the performance after all” (100). The woman, likely 55 or older from Mansfield’s physical descriptions, lives her life and thrives in it through other people’s experiences. After all, “she had really become an expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn’t listen, at sitting in other people’s lives just for a minute while they talked round her” (98). Miss Brill’s inauthentic yet darkly happy view on life comes to an abrupt halt when a young woman loudly insults her, describing her fur as “like a fried whiting”, and then the young man’s attack of “who wants her? Why doesn’t... |
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Keywords: miss brill by katherine mansfield, abrupt halt, conflict, protagonist, no doubt, mansfield katherine, old womans, insignificant roles, rude awakening, written sentences, physical descriptions, different light, antagonist, whiting, intimately, inclination, insults, furs, humiliation