Widely anthologized, “Miss Brill” is considered as one of Katherine Mansfield's finest pieces of short fiction. It is a
remarkably rich and innovative work that incorporates most of Mansfield's defining themes: isolation, disillusionment
and the gap between expectations and reality. It is about how the heroine, a woman by the name of Miss Brill, old,
desolate, probably widowed, stubbornly defies a virtually inescapable fate, yet is finally compelled to concede defeat.
The plot of the story is simple, and the themes are by no means uncanny. What merits our attention is, indeed, the way
Mansfield narrates the story and the language she employs in the whole process of narration. Generally speaking, the
style of this particular text, is delicate, poetic, and ironic; it is characterized by a subtle sensitivity to mood and emotion,
revealing the inner conflicts her characters face and resolve.