Mansfield especially uses Miss Brill’s reactions and emotions toward the conversations and actions of the other characters to characterize her. The old couple she saw gives her little emotion at first. She views them “as though they’d just come from… cupboards,” a metaphor comparing them to forgotten dishes. Mansfield uses this to add irony later on in the story. The selection of detail that Miss Brill uses to describe the other park members shows that she is a sagacious observer. Mansfield uses the music that the band is playing in the park as a motif to parallel Miss Brill’s emotions. Throughout the story, Miss Brill listens to the band, and connects it with the situations that she observes. Miss Brill says to herself that “the band seemed to know what [the ermine toque] was feeling…” when she observes the “ermine toque”. The recurrence of the music being played by the band is what Mansfield uses to characterize Miss Brill through internal emotions that Miss Brill had yet to realize herself.
Through all the characterization techniques used by Mansfield, Miss Brill becomes a character who eventually realizes the truth about herself. Mansfield uses irony when Miss Brill “went into the little dark room- her room like a cupboard”. Incorporating the cupboard in the final revelation shows that Miss Brill realizes that she is like the old couple in the park. When Miss Brill lays the fox fur back inside its box, she puts the lid on and “thought she heard something crying.” The crying was Miss Brill herself, which is how Mansfield causes the reader to feel sympathy for her. This is also a way that the author reveals a compassionate tone. The irony, repetition, motifs, and revelations in the story cause the reader to grow with Miss Brill, causing a stronger reaction in the pathos of the reader.
Mansfield especially uses Miss Brill’s reactions and emotions toward the conversations and actions of the other characters to characterize her. The old couple she saw gives her little emotion at first. She views them “as though they’d just come from… cupboards,” a metaphor comparing them to forgotten dishes. Mansfield uses this to add irony later on in the story. The selection of detail that Miss Brill uses to describe the other park members shows that she is a sagacious observer. Mansfield uses the music that the band is playing in the park as a motif to parallel Miss Brill’s emotions. Throughout the story, Miss Brill listens to the band, and connects it with the situations that she observes. Miss Brill says to herself that “the band seemed to know what [the ermine toque] was feeling…” when she observes the “ermine toque”. The recurrence of the music being played by the band is what Mansfield uses to characterize Miss Brill through internal emotions that Miss Brill had yet to realize herself.Through all the characterization techniques used by Mansfield, Miss Brill becomes a character who eventually realizes the truth about herself. Mansfield uses irony when Miss Brill “went into the little dark room- her room like a cupboard”. Incorporating the cupboard in the final revelation shows that Miss Brill realizes that she is like the old couple in the park. When Miss Brill lays the fox fur back inside its box, she puts the lid on and “thought she heard something crying.” The crying was Miss Brill herself, which is how Mansfield causes the reader to feel sympathy for her. This is also a way that the author reveals a compassionate tone. The irony, repetition, motifs, and revelations in the story cause the reader to grow with Miss Brill, causing a stronger reaction in the pathos of the reader.
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