In Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield and Araby by James Joyce we notice many common things in both main characters. One is their fantasy. In both stories both of the main characters are deluded by their imagination and have made their imagination shape their way of living.
In Miss Brill, a middle-aged woman has a lonely life, she has barely any social interactions thus she finds distraction by eavesdropping into other people’s conversations. Miss Brill lives in a fantasy of her own she enjoys sitting at the park every Sunday afternoon to listen to the band play as she observes others and tune in on the conversations around her. There is evidence that Miss Brill creates an imaginative reality for herself to get rid of the loneliness in her …show more content…
He perceives reality and his surroundings differently just like Miss Brill. The young boy has a crush on his friend Mangan’s sister on page 297 he tells us “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlor watching her door. The blind was pulled down within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen. When she came out on the doorsteps my heart leaped.”” Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.”…”At last she spoke to me. When she addressed the first words to me I was so confused that I didn’t know what to answer. She asked me was I going to Araby. I forgot whether I answered yes or no. It would be a splendid bazaar she said; she would love to go”. And so the young boy felt the need to go as he promised to get her something if he did. He tried immensely asking more than once his aunt and uncle telling them how he will be going. Though it had gotten late the night of the bazar he left on a journey alone on the train to attend …show more content…
In Miss Brill’s case a young couple had rude remarks to make of her that made her feel unimportant we see this on page 307 “But Why? Because of that stupid old thing at the end there? Asked the boy. “Why does she come here at all- who wants her? Why doesn’t she cheep that old silly mug at home? “It’s her fu-fur which is so funny,” giggled the girl. “It’s exactly like a fried whiting”. With these words reality had smacked Miss Brill and made her feel frivolous and had emotionally broken her since her way of coping with her loneliness had disappeared. Same with the young boy in Araby on page 301, “I heard a voice call from the one end of the gallery that the light was out. The upper part of the hall was now completely dark. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derived by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.” His hopes of going back with a gift has been tarnished and now believes that the opportunity for him to approach Mangan’s sister is now
In Miss Brill, a middle-aged woman has a lonely life, she has barely any social interactions thus she finds distraction by eavesdropping into other people’s conversations. Miss Brill lives in a fantasy of her own she enjoys sitting at the park every Sunday afternoon to listen to the band play as she observes others and tune in on the conversations around her. There is evidence that Miss Brill creates an imaginative reality for herself to get rid of the loneliness in her …show more content…
He perceives reality and his surroundings differently just like Miss Brill. The young boy has a crush on his friend Mangan’s sister on page 297 he tells us “Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlor watching her door. The blind was pulled down within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen. When she came out on the doorsteps my heart leaped.”” Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.”…”At last she spoke to me. When she addressed the first words to me I was so confused that I didn’t know what to answer. She asked me was I going to Araby. I forgot whether I answered yes or no. It would be a splendid bazaar she said; she would love to go”. And so the young boy felt the need to go as he promised to get her something if he did. He tried immensely asking more than once his aunt and uncle telling them how he will be going. Though it had gotten late the night of the bazar he left on a journey alone on the train to attend …show more content…
In Miss Brill’s case a young couple had rude remarks to make of her that made her feel unimportant we see this on page 307 “But Why? Because of that stupid old thing at the end there? Asked the boy. “Why does she come here at all- who wants her? Why doesn’t she cheep that old silly mug at home? “It’s her fu-fur which is so funny,” giggled the girl. “It’s exactly like a fried whiting”. With these words reality had smacked Miss Brill and made her feel frivolous and had emotionally broken her since her way of coping with her loneliness had disappeared. Same with the young boy in Araby on page 301, “I heard a voice call from the one end of the gallery that the light was out. The upper part of the hall was now completely dark. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derived by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.” His hopes of going back with a gift has been tarnished and now believes that the opportunity for him to approach Mangan’s sister is now