Miss Brill Compare And Contrast

While some differences between the stories “A&P” and the story called Miss Brill are evident, their similarities are distinct. Both the author of “A&P” and the author of “Miss Brill” present their stories from the main characters point of view. Sammy the narrator of “A&P” shows his acute sense of observation and his ability to notice even the slightest detail about some of the other characters in the story. The main similarity between the two characters are the conflict in which every event they face presents.
The first level of conflict in the story “A&P” with Sammy was when the two young girls walk into the market wearing swimsuits and are barefoot although Sammy knows that the beach lies far from which the story is set. Sammy shifts his …show more content…
Most of the conflicts in Miss brill are apparent but one main conflict that emerges when Miss Brill goes on her normal routine Sunday at the park and begins to conversate with an English man and his wife. The Englishman hand his wife cannot seem to decide on which glasses frame would fit the wife better. Miss Brill is presented by Mansfield as the tenacious type and is proven to be hard to please, she tries to accentuate her principles and sentiments upon everyone she conversates with. As seen in Updikes story the story is also told through Miss brills point of view which the reader can see that Miss brill tries to run from her problems as a substitute for trying to find a solution to them. Miss Brill focuses on the peripheral environment and the people around her and their arguments. Miss Brill does not permit herself to feel undesirable passions. At the beginning of Mansfield’s story, Miss brill is introduced when she is getting ready for the day and is pictured talking to her fur, giving it human qualities when she considers its “dim little eyes,” as it asks, “What has been happening to me?”. She feels a sense of sadness but dismisses it from her emotions. Towards the end of the story when Miss Brill takes off her necklace she begins to feel detached from something that she held …show more content…
In each story the conflicts in which the characters face both shine light on the two characters and where their problems are coming from which are separated from the problems around them. Even though the solutions to the characters problems came quickly and with ease they gave insight to the deeper conflicts that the characters had been battling throughout the story. The conflicts of both character make the reader see that no person let alone character is as simple as the appear when first presented. Both stories showed two different ways of solving a problem and the effects of doing it that