Miss Brill

Personal: While reading this story, I envisioned not a young woman, but maybe someone in her 40's. She describes other people as old. It is not until the end that the reader gets any sort of physical description and this is important. She is really an old lady herself, which helps to reveal the importance of her delusion. She feels like she is an actress on the stage. But the young people at the end only give a brief description of her because it is revealed only through their dialogue. The old fur that she is wearing is a symbol of herself. And at the end of the story, when she hears it crying, it is herself crying.