tory that Miss Brill experiences her painful epiphany.A pair of young lovers sit down on Miss Brill’s bench. She becomes excited for she now has a conversation to listen in on. The boy wants to kiss the girl but the girl resists. The boy asks if it is because of the “stupid old thing on the end over the” (52), referring to Miss Brill. With that sentence uttered, Miss Brill’s trance is forever broken. She leaves the park to return home without buying her honeycake, without the joy she had when she first arrived. Here, the author makes the connectiobetween Miss Brill’s view of the other’s who frequent the park on Sundays. She writes, “ ...she...went into the little dark room--her room like a cupboard” (52). Miss Brill has come to the realization that she is just like the odd, silent, and old peoe that she had looked on with pity before this day.Miss Brill’s character is revealed indirectly. At first she seems different then the others who come to the park every Sunday, but later it is revealed that she is not. The reader discovers this right along with Miss Brill. Bit by bit, Miss Brill’s culiarities are brought into the light.The rest of the characters in “Miss Brill” would have to be described as flat. None of them are named, only a few have speaking roles and they all seem to flit in and then out of the story as Miss Brill turns her attention to something else. There arthe other regulars to the park, the old couple who quietly sit on Miss Brill’s “special” bench, the couple from the previous week who had a discussion about the woman getting spectacles. The band with it’s members and it’s conductor play for the crowd,he little children dressed in their best parade by, and perhaps most importantly, the young lovers take their place on Miss Brill’s bench.“Miss Brill” is written in a limited omniscient point...
