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Katherine Mansfield’s short story “, Miss Brill,” is a tale of a woman operating at the outer fringe of reality, told from the third person omniscient point of view. The mannerly, refined Miss Brill is an observer of life, one who sits on the sidelines while ....

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.... operates as she does. The way in which the narrator describes “Miss Brill” gives dainty and graceful texture to the story “, Miss Brill put up her hand and touched her fur. Dear little thing! It was nice to feel it again. She had taken it out of her box that after noon, shaken out the moth-powder, given it a good brush, and rubbed the life back into the dim little eyes. “What has been happening to me?” said the sad little eyes. Oh how sweet it was to see them snap at her again from the red eiderdown!…But the nose, which was of some black composition, wasn’t at all firm. It must have had a knockdown somehow. Never mind-a dab of black ....