Katherine Mansfield's "Miss Brill"

Katherine Mansfield's short story "Miss Brill" is an great example of how a writer can use various literary techniques to lead the reader to a better understanding of Miss Brill the character. Instead of merely stating the message of the story, Mansfield used various literary techniques to allow the reader to draw his own conclusions about the character. Using these literary aspects to reveal a truth about a character to the reader is often referred …

…the literary methods of symbolism, setting, and points of view to enable the reader to understand the story and this get the greater meaning. Bibliography "A Short Story: Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill". http://www.op.org/domcentral/study/ashley/arts/arts404.htm Mansfield, Katherine. "Miss Brill." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: 1999. 33-37. "Symbolism". http://www.kysu.edu/artsscience/LLP/211/symbolsm.htm