The Wonderfully Talented, Yet Fully Alone Miss Bri

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The Wonderfully Talented, Yet Fully Alone Miss Brill By Your name here Professor ENG- April-2012 The Wonderfully Talented, Yet Fully Alone Miss Brill Henry Miller once said, “An artist is always alone - if he is an artist." One might say that there is a vast difference between the act of being alone and the feeling of loneliness. In fact one definition for the word lonely is, "producing such dejection." In Katherine Mansfield’s short story “Miss Brill”, we find Miss Brill acting out exactly what Henry Miller is describing. The story of Miss Brill begins with her taking a walk in the park, wearing the fur the she has methodically picked out for the day. Each place she goes is part of the set she creates and every person she sees is part of the cast in the master piece that she is creating, suggesting that in her being alone she is setting up a creative world where anything is possible. The stage for this story is set as Miss Brill is sitting on a park bench on a beautifully clear day. As she sets there and thinks about the fur that she put on this morning she is drawing inspiration from it. One might think that Miss Brill is simply a crazy old lady who has an unhealthy affection for her fur, on the other hand one may come to the idea that she is a creative genius drawing inspiration for her tales that unfold in her mind. Miss Brill is so inspired by the fur around her neck that she physically feels it in her chest. "Miss Brill put up her hand and touched her fur. Dear little thing! It was nice to feel it again. She had taken it out of its box that afternoon, shaken out the moth-powder, given it a good brush, and rubbed the life back into the dim little eyes. "What has been happening to me?" said the sad little eyes. Oh, how sweet it was to see them snap at her again from the red eiderdown! ... But the nose, which was of some black composition,
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