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The story Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield is about an old aged woman who lives all by herself. She has a usual routine that she follows by going to the park every Sunday. One Sunday afternoon she decides to puts on her fur and takes her usual seat and she finds more number of people than the last time she visited. It was because of the season that changed where the band at the Jardine’s Publiques also sounded much louder and different than the usual days. She doesn’t bother anyone around her and only admires the surrounding people by eavesdropping on their conversation. There were only two of them who sat next to her but didn’t get along with her in conversation. In spite of her loneliness she kept watching and considering herself in the scenes taking place in the park. She was all alone surrounded by isolation which she was unaware of. The very next moment a young romantic couple walks in where, the girl leaves a comment on Miss Brill regarding the fur she’s worn. She is hurt but also helpless of herself…

“Miss Brill” a wonderful story by Katherine Mansfield’s, is about an elder woman who is aging and so isolated, yearning to be a family of the community. She spends her regular Sunday afternoon walking and sitting in the park. She has a quite an imagination. She is also a tutor who teaches English. Aging is everyone’s destiny because it a process in our lives that everyone dreads the experience of. Imagine getting wrinkles that suddenly emerges on our face, hair turning grey, or even weight gain…

In "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield, an elderly woman describes how she feels and what she sees as she visits Seaside Park on a Sunday afternoon for her weekly ritual. Miss Brill portrays a lonely, elderly English school teacher who would like a different reality from the one she lives in. Miss Brill attends Seaside Park as an escape from her reality and to feel as a part of society. Miss Brill time is only taken up by her trips to the park and her 5th grade students. Mansfield shows the…

Patient Assignment 1. The English Patients obsessive love is seen when “A husband gone mad. Killing all of them. Killing himself and his wife-and him by the fact that there was now no way out of the desert. Only she was not dead. He pulled her body free, varying it out of the plane’s crumpled grip, this grip of her husband.”(137) This is clearly obsession as the EP is carrying his lovers dead body. 2. The consuming love between the EP and Katherine is evident when “On Hassanein Bey’s lawn- the…

Essay #1 (Miss Brill) In her short story, “Miss Brill,” Katherine Mansfield uses a variety of techniques such as descriptions, thoughts, and actions to fully characterize Miss Brill. She does so in a way to convey Miss Brill’s behaviors that “help” her to cope with her loneliness. One behavior Miss Brill has is that she wears a beloved old fur that is her “prized possession” every Sunday to the Jardins Publiques, a park in France. Her fur isn’t just any fur for it is her…

“Miss Brill”, written by Katherine Mansfield, is the somber short story of loneliness and disenchantment. Miss Brill, an elderly woman whose most treasured possession is the outdated fur she drapes over her neck, visits the town square to people watch. She has been doing this for so long now that she views the whole scene as a play, of which she believes she is an integral part of, but her world is shattered when two teenagers mock her and complain about her presence as a nuisance.…

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…

Jennifer Vanderbes’ (2004) Easter Island novel tells a story of two women who visited the island 60 years apart. In 1912, Elsa Pendleton was arranged to marry her father’s colleague, Edward Beazley after her father’s death. In hopes of caring for Elsa and her mentally impaired sister Alice, Elsa accepts the marriage proposal. Archaeologist, Edward Beazley, accepted the offer to take an expedition to Easter Island to study the moai statues and the culture on the mysterious island. As a honeymoon…

Both Kate Chopin and Katherine Anne Porter have had their issues with love and they seem to show it through the eyes of a reader with their main characters in their short stories “The Storm” and “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. Chopin had married Oscar Chopin, a Creole cotton broker, at nineteen and he later pass away in 1883 which had left her with six children to raise own her own. As this shocking turn of events inspired Chopin to start writing, critics have taken her work as too explicit…

a “Black First” is commendable, but to be a female “Black First” is even more praiseworthy. Katherine Goble Johnson was one such lady, who came from an ordinary life, and made the most of the world. She was born in White Sulfur Springs West Virginia on August 26th 1918 to Joshua and Joylette Coleman. She grew from a student to a teacher, wife, mother, mathematician, grandmother, and finally honored for her dedication for our country. She married Jimmy Goble (died December 1956) and James…