Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield

Miss Brill is nuts.  She has been single for to long that she has become a spinster.  She has no real friend to speak of.   She goes every Sunday to listen to the band and watch people.  She eavesdrops on everyone that passes by or sites on a bench by her to listen to the band.  Miss Brill is a recluse.  She lives by herself and apparently talks to her furs. “‘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” (Mansfield 182).  Miss Brill is eccentric.  She thinks the eyes of her furs portray thoughts.  She later thinks that she is par of a theatrical production at the park.  She is then insulted by a child making remarks about her furs.  This causes her to change the schedule of her day by going strait home instead of stopping of for a pastry. She then puts her furs away and thinks she hears something crying.