Cause and Effective on Shame and Ms.Brill

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Causes and effects of alienation of “Miss Brill” and “Shame” Katherine Mansfield’s short story “Miss Brill” was written about an old English teacher’s sudden awareness of her position in the small society that she enjoyed for a long time. Dick Gregory’s narrative “shame” was about his shame at school and in later life. Both of these stories were written about people’s sudden live changes due to other’s words towards them. Miss Brill was an old English teacher who lived in a “little dark room—her room like a cupboard”.(18) However, she enjoyed going to the park where people of all ages enjoyed and played a part. “Miss Brill discovered what it was that made it so exciting. They were all on the stage. They weren’t only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting. Even she had a part and came every Sunday.”(9) She even enjoyed of being an invisible person by eavesdropping in other’s lives. “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.”(3) However, because of her present at the park, the girl refused her boyfriend’s inappropriate request, the girl’s reaction made the boy angry at Miss Brill. At that moment, the young people made some rude remarks towards Miss Brill. These remarks changed her life at this early fall sunny afternoon. “It’s her fur-ur which is so funny,” giggled the girl. “It’s exactly like a fried whiting.”(14) “Ah, be off with you!” said the boy in an angry whisper.(15) The two young people’s rude remarks made Miss Brill suddenly aware of her position in the park despite she had been looked at other old people the same way as the young people looked her. “Other people sat on the benches and green chairs, but they were nearly always the same, Sunday after Sunday, and –Miss Brill had often noticed—there was

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