Compare And Contrast Soldier's Life And Miss Brill

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“Miss Brill” is written by Katherine Mansfield. The protagonist, Miss Brill, is from an English town, but she now lives in a French town. The story does not say whether or not she has a support system; so, we assume she does not. Krebs is the protagonist in the short story “Soldier’s Home” written by Ernest Hemingway. Krebs is a character in this short story that has come to his home town, Oklahoma, after shielding his country in World War I. Although Krebs and Miss Brill are from two altered environments, they share some of the same isolated qualities and obstinate habits.
To make herself feel more encompassed in the external world, Miss Brill has an inflexibility of leaving her house with her fur and going to the park bench to watch the local band play. She also watches the society who roam the park, and eavesdrops on other people’s exchanges “She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn 't listen, at sitting in other people 's lives just for a minute while they talked round her” (Mansfield, 309). She alleged that by heeding she …show more content…

Miss Brill was also very delusional, she believed that she was playing a part in a play “They weren 't only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting. Even she had a part and came every Sunday” (Mansfield, 310). That was Miss Brill’s way of making an excuse as to why she had a routine. She is not facing the certainty of her life. By the end of the story, it seems that Miss Brill vicissitudes by breaching her routine “But today she passed the baker 's by, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room - her room like a cupboard - and sat down on the red eiderdown”(Mansfield, 311). Miss Brill comprehends just how sealed in and miserable her life truly is. She is left in the isolated world which is her

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