Katherine Mansfields Short Sto

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is also happy, and when the fur is insulted then Miss Brill is also insulted. Perhaps the best example of this bond is when Miss Brill is sitting in her cupboard like room and putts her fur away, and thinks that she hears "something crying"(36)
Miss Brill's "room [is] like a cupboard"(36). This allusion Mansfield gives to Miss Brill's room is valuable because of two reasons. First, it is a "thread" is sewn into the story in order to keep every vital detail together. This term was first used to describe the odd, funny, old people that Miss Brill perceives in the park "Sunday after Sunday"(34). It does not accure to Miss Brill that she is also one of these "funny old people" , however, Mansfield tells the audience that she is indeed one of these "funny old people" when she describes Miss Brill's room to the reader. The second reason that this is a valuable quote is that it demonstrates the effect setting can have on the readers opinion to the characters true nature and how one ...

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