Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield
A literary technique used in Miss Brill would be the literary technique of characterization. Ms. Brill's characteristic qualities are revealed throughout the story. Some of this characterization is direct and indirect. I would characterize Ms. Brill as an older woman who is a little bit peculiar, alone, and observant. "She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a minute while they talked round her"(Mansfield, 183). This sentence from the story really characterizes Ms. Brill as an observer. At the same time, I could not help but feel bad for Ms. Brill. I get the sense that all of her life, she has been an outsider. She has always taken such a fascination and interest in everyone's lives around her. However, I feel as though those same people do not pay nearly as much attention to Ms. Brill's life. Ms. Brill could go missing and I do not think very many people would notice her disappearance.
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