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miss brill
Title: miss brill
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 813 | Pages: 3.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
miss brill
The Third Person-Point of View as used by Katherine Mansfield in "Miss Brill"
Katherine Mansfield’s use of the third person, limited omniscient point of view
in "Miss Brill" has the effect of letting the reader see the contrast between Miss
Brill’s idea of her role in life and the reality of the small part she truly plays in
world around her. In one short Sunday afternoon, the main character’s view of
herself …showed first 75 words of 813 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 813 total…omniscient point of view allowed Mansfield to keep hidden
Miss Brill’s fears and the reality of her life. If the reader had been given the
thoughts of any of the other characters, the fantasy would have been destroyed in
the beginning of the story, ruining any effective use of foreshadowing. Even
Miss Brill’s thoughts in the first person point of view would have given away her
fears and made the story totally different.
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