she did before, she knows what she is and can never go back. "... 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 elderdown. She sat there for a long time. The box that the fur came out of was on the bed. She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, without looking, laid it inside. But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying" (Mansfield 261). In the end the reader never knows what happens to Miss Brill, does she lock herself away? Or does she rise above her solitude? Whatever the conclusion, she is a changed person....
