Read and respond by Camila Sauthier

Questions

camila_sauthier — 2024-01-28 22:02:39 UTC

What essentially happens in this story?
How does Miss Brill deal with reality?
What is the reality she has to deal with?
How would you describe Miss Brill?
How does Miss Brill see the ermine toque woman? Is she seeing the truth?
Do you think Miss Brill is a good observer? Does she think she is a good observer?
How does Miss Brill see herself?
Do you think Miss Brill is an actress (as she says she is)?

i dont think she is an actress, there is no evidence in the scenes for me that support that information; i think she likes to se herself as this perceptive person who knows to read people

2024-01-29 21:23:54 UTC

Miss Brill sit down in the park and starts to watch and comment the scenery from that place

2024-01-29 21:24:48 UTC

Miss Brill seems to live throughout the scenario she creates in her head using the people she sees outside. All with a bit of a glamurous and dramatic touch. Life is more interesting and everything is more glamurous, including herself, this way.

2024-01-29 21:24:52 UTC

2024-01-29 21:27:05 UTC

Miss Brill is a good observer, what she isn't is a good interpreter of what she sees. She sees what is around her, but she doesn't undertand it.

2024-01-29 21:27:22 UTC

I believe her reality is that of a lonely, uninteresting and uneventful, old single woman. And it seems that she is trying to make her life more dramatic and exciting, but even then, she seems at most an observer of life, and not a participant, even in her eyes

How does Miss Brill see herself?

2024-01-29 21:27:25 UTC

Miss Brill thought she was connected to the other people, and she was happy as she believed she was part of the 'play'. As the young couple reveal how the others see her, she seems to realize that she was not actually important, she was old and lonely.

2024-01-29 21:27:55 UTC

she goes into the park and fantasizes about peoples lives like they are actors in a play, where everything is key to the development of the scene, even her own participation as a watcher

What reality does she deal with?

2024-01-29 21:29:55 UTC

She seems to deal with the idea (that she found quite real) that she is an ordinary.

2024-01-29 21:30:22 UTC

She is a great observer and she seems to know it, since in the beginning she thinks about becoming an expert in "listening as though she didn't listen"

Miss Brill is a lonely English teacher who lives in France. She goes to the park every Sunday to atend the band performances, to see people and to imagine things about them. She also imagines that they are actors and everything around her is part of a play.

2024-01-29 21:33:40 UTC

2024-01-29 21:37:52 UTC

She seems disconnected to reality, trying organize everything around her. She seems an actress but not literally, she is just playing a part when she doesn't know herself, she seems to be living "her part in society". she seems to have an empty life, so she imagine a lot of things trying to feel this "hole" and ends up seeing everything as perfomatic