How Does Mansfield Present Miss Brill's Character

Katherine Mansfield does a phenomenal job portraying the main protagonist, Miss Brill as a judgmental, nosy, and fairly wealthy woman. Mansfield uses literary devices like imagery to show the reader what the fur she's wearing to convey her wealth without directly stating that she's wealthy. Mansfield uses third person limited omniscient to let the reader see what Miss Brill is thinking and in the process, showing us how judgmental and nosy she really is. Mansfield seemed to want to portray Miss Brill as a somewhat carefree, but confident character that by the end becomes the complete opposite because of her bad habit of eavesdropping on people's conversations. Mansfield was able to show Miss Brill's judgmental nature and nosiness in the line, " An Englishman and his wife, [he's] wearing a dreadful Panama hat and she button boots." where she says how horrible she's dressing. …show more content…
An example of when Mansfield wants to show how nosy Miss Brill is in the line "And she'd gone the whole time about how she ought to wear spectacles; she knew she needed them; but it was no good getting any" where Miss Brill is eavesdropping on the couple that share the bench with