Chacter Sketch Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield illustrates in the story the protagonist Miss Brill as a middle aged women with no family that believes she has a social life, which consists of watching other people interact with each other. Mansfield parallels Miss Brill with the fur she keeps wrapped up in a box until Sunday. She demonstrates a dynamic character that receives a reality check from the "real" world where she belongs rather than in a chimerical world she made up. Mansfield creates a colorful character who symbolizes her old, worn fur and lacks the reality of the outside world.
Mansfield's parallelism between Miss Brill and her fur shows the reader that Miss Brill stays in a box in a dark closet until Sunday when she "acts" in the play of the outside world. Mansfield describes the fur's eyes asking "what has happened to me?" as Miss Brill had to "rub some life back into its dim little eyes " after it sat in the box for some period of time. Just like the fur Miss Brill stays bottled up in box......
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