"Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield

Miss Brill: Point of View and Setting The story "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield is told to us in the third person; by someone watching. We are given a poetic description of a beautiful afternoon at the park. We can see and also feel the crispness in the air. Our narrator also allows us to see into Miss Brill's perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and into her world as a whole. We see the world through her …

…it will not be the same. Her perspective will have changed. She is an outcast, a lonely spectator watching life pass by, the thrill and excitement, even joy of being an actor is gone. We feel her pain as she is faced with the sudden reality of the emptiness of her life. We hope we aren't faced with the same reality of being a watcher, apart from others, and not a part of it all.