Miss. Brill by Katherine Mansfield, written in 1920, is a short story that is part of Mansfield's The Garden Party and Other Stories. It is the short story of a middle-aged teacher who finds joy in spending her Sunday afternoon sitting in the park. At the park, she finds joy in observing others around her and pretending that they are all actors and actresses on a stage. Miss Brill finds joy in the illusion she creates at the park. She is a woman who lives a very monotonous life and finds joy in creating an unrealistic world, in which she imagines herself as an actress. She uses illusion not only as an escape from reality but also from herself. Miss Brill creates an illusion to escape the reality that she is losing her youth. Although Miss Brill knows the world, where she imagines she is not truly an actress, she continues to spend her Sunday afternoons in the park where she has created an unrealistic world for herself. In the illusion that Miss Brill creates to escape the reality that she is losing her youth, she tries to preserve memories of her youth, such as fur. During her afternoons at the park, Miss Brill chooses to wear her fur coat. For her, fur is a reminder of her past. It's a reminder of the days when he was younger. It makes her feel good to wear fur because of the memories it brings back. She states: “Dear little thing! It was nice to hear that again” (Mansfield 1). She cares about fur and is very fond of it, perhaps because of the memories it created when she wore it. The fur reminds her of her youth. It's why he kept it in his possession for so long. The fur is a symbol of his youth. She has managed to keep her fur despite aging. She's... middle of paper... she's in her fur coat and going to spend a pleasant evening in the park, when this young couple arrives and ruins her evening. Upon further analysis of the text, Miss Brill can actually be considered very hypocritical because not only does she often make rude statements towards other people in the park but she is not exactly the nicest person because she spends her Sunday afternoons listening to other people's conversations people. It gives her the thrill of eavesdropping on other people's conversations and when they don't interest her enough, she gets angry at them and hopes they'll go away. Mansfield after a deeper analysis makes the reader evaluate the sympathy he feels for Miss Brill. Once you remove the illusions and evaluate the person you really are, you discover that you are not just a bored woman enjoying afternoons in the park..