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I sympathize most with the main character of Katherine Mansfield's short story "Miss Brill." Miss Brill is a woman living in her own little world because reality is too lonely for her. She uses her weekly outings as an escape from isolation and as a chance to feel included. Reality strikes Miss Brill in the end of the story when she overhears a young couple speaking unkindly of her. It is then that Miss Brill realizes that she too is just one of the elderly bench sitters and is not apart of anything she hoped she was.
Miss Brill alters her perception of reality in order to avoid unpleasant feelings of loneliness and despair. On her weekly outings, Miss Brill escapes her "room like a cupboard" (620) confines and in her mind, becomes a part of the lives around her. As she sits on the bench taking in the atmosphere, watching and listening to every person around her, Miss Brill, and, for that moment, makes herself apart of these people's lives. She believes she is family to......

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