Miss Brill," by Katherine Mansfield. She was a novelist in New Zealand. She took the modernist style in her literary work. She was a short story writer.
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. Miss Brill has always been on of Mansfield's most popular stories. Miss Brill is more than a characterization of a lonely spinster:Miss Brill as a strange woman has no validity to live with in this society. She can’t interact with the people there here there is a lack of merit.
In this story there is some kind of moral behavior which basically concerned on right and wrong of values. Here the story emphasis what is good in this woman and what is bad according to the people opinions which live around here.
n reality, Miss Brill is a part of nothing. She sits alone on a bench with her ratty old fur and watches the world pass before her. She sees other people sitting on benches Sunday after Sunday and thinks of them as "funny...odd, silent, nearly all old...as though they'd just come from dark little rooms." Rather than see herself as one of them, she creates a fantasy world to escape facing the truth. Even in this seemingly perfect production, within Miss Brills mind, Mansfield shows us that there is the possibility of evil. Along come the "hero and heroine" of Miss Brills imagination and the nasty truth cuts like a knife. The young couple begin to ridicule and make fun of the "stupid, old, lonely lady that no body wants," and in that instant her dream is demolished and little world crumbles. Miss Brill solemnly walks home, passing up things that she used to look forward to. She sits on her bed, puts the fur back in its box, and thinks she hears something crying. The fur is symbolic of something old and lonely that has lost its beauty over the years.
The fur is not crying...Miss Brill is. The fantasy is over and the truth must now sink in.
Finally, it is worth to say that "Miss Brill" is offered as a women with no social significant and is shown to be rejected by the society she continually attempts to play a crucial "role" in. however Katherine has given her this
deflated status as a projection of her marital status, she is a spinster and thus it can be suggested that without a male counterpart, women in society hold no social significance.