Katherine Mansfield's "Miss Brill"

It seems that when people are lonely, they will interact with anyone or anything, even inanimate objects. Miss Brill, in the opening scene of the story, appears to be a lonely person as she imagines her fur speaking to her: "'What has been happening to me?' said the said little eyes" (182). Miss Brill calls her fur a "little rogue" and then imagines is "biting its tail just by her left ear" (182). Indeed, Miss Brill appears to be lonely since she addresses her fur as if it were a long lost friend that has been away for some time.

Miss Brill's loneliness is further apparent in the next scene where she expresses her disappointment over the lack of conversation by the two other people sitting near her:

They did not speak. This was disappointment, for Miss Brill always looked forward to t

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Approximate Word count = 814
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)