Imagery About Miss Brill

Imagery around Miss Brill

Miriam B. Mandel states that there is less action and more figurative in “Miss Brill”. The most imagery used throughout the short story was the sights and sounds around Miss Brill. There was also some imagery for the sense of taste and touch. The imagery in the short story “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield is important to the readers’ understanding about what Miss Brill’s personality.

The imagery of Katherine Mansfield short story “Miss Brill” is important to the readers’ understanding of the way Miss Brill thinks. Miriam B. Mandel was the inspiration for the topic of this literary analysis paper. She stated that there is less action and more figurative language in “Miss Brill”. Throughout the short story Miss Brill uses the sense imagery of sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch.

The sense imagery of sight is portrayed a lot by Miss Brill. The sights are different scenes that she is accustomed to every Sunday at Jardin Publiques. At Jardin Publiques “couples and groups paraded…children ran swooping and laughing” (212). Mansfield imagery of the activities occurring among the people was exact. The author used descriptive words that help readers to use their minds to see what is going on. The descriptive words used by Mansfield also help the movie screen of readers mind to visualize what characters in the short story look like. “The old people sat on the bench, still as statues…Sunday after Sunday nearly always the same” (212).

The sense imagery of sound is also used my Miss Brill throughout the short story. The sound imagery is used toward the band that plays in Jardin Publique. The band’s sound was constantly changing. Miss Brill makes note of it each time it occurs. From the writer’s perspective, the music played by the band show’s some significance because the music changes based on Miss Brill’s mood. In the beginning, the band play “a little “flutey” bit” (211) then “played more softly, played tenderly, and the drum...