ons come to the readers, “Am I one of those ‘others’ who just sit and watch the world go by? And if so, is it too late for me to change?” Katherine Mansfield’s artful use of the third person, limited omniscient point of view allowed Mansfield to keep hidden Miss Brill’s fears and the reality of her life. If the reader had been given the thoughts of any of the other characters, the fantasy would have been destroyed in the beginning of the story, ruining any effective use of foreshadowing. Even Miss Brill’s thoughts in the first person point of view would have given away her fears and made the story totally different. ...
