Entry 4 Quote response

Quote

""Why does she come here at all, who wants her? Why doesn't she keep her silly old mug at home?" (Mansfield, 86)

Response
Ultimately I feel like it was a good story. But frustrating in the fact that it’s a little sad to see this older women go through her life as naive as she is and not realize what’s going on. Well I guess she might not choose to realize what is going on? Ha ha....
I think that I chose this quote because it’s a little disheartening. We are given this picture of "Miss Brill" that is quite sad. I think we are given this understanding of Miss Brill so we can almost sympathize on a personal level with her. At least that’s what it felt like to me. Even though the people in the story aren't looking at her from a reader’s perspective it’s hard to understand why anyone would say this about her. I mean all she is trying to do is give herself a life. After all she has nobody!! I’m glad that she was able to create her on little reality. Or set the stage for herself. Now I understand that that she may have sat and judged a little and seemed out of place to most people but I would think that sometimes we need people like this around!