"Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield
Point of View
By using the third person omniscient, Mansfield is able to inform the reader of Miss Brill's thoughts and feelings. Miss Brill's desire to avoid loneliness by regularly spending time in crowds and conversing with new people is seen because of the point of view. The separation between her imagination and the reality of the situation is depicted clearly because there is a narrator. Had it been told in the first person, the reader would only see Miss Brill's skewed view of reality. Like this picture, the point of view explicitly shows Brill's loneliness. The picture exhibits the smallness of one individual; how one person can feel so insignificant; and life would progress without them. This idea of the world being fine without "me" is one that Miss Brill is very much aware of.
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