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On a Sunday Afternoon

Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill is a story about an old English woman that lacks companionship and self-awareness. Miss Brill lives by herself and goes through life in a repetitive manner. Each Sunday, Miss Brill ventures down to the park to watch and listen to the band play. She finds herself listening not only to the band, but also to strangers who walk together and converse before her. Her interest in the lives of those around her shows the reader that Miss Brill lacks companionship. In addition, the story uses indirect presentation to allow the reader to create his or her own opinion of Miss Brill. Mansfield describes her as a woman who lives in a small house, somewhat the size of a cupboard and that she is living in a state of false consciousness. Miss Brill struggles with her loneliness and lack of reality while living vicariously through others.
Loneliness plays an extremely large part of Miss Brill's life and can be proven by things in the......

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