Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield and Story of an Hour by...

Bliss and Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield and Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin On studying the texts Bliss and Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield and Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin I have associated all the stories with a sense of female repression. All the short stories feature a main female character and this character is being repressed in various ways such as by another character or their lives in general. In all the stories the awareness of repression appears towards the end mainly due to an event that has taken place. This event brings forth a realisation of their lives, which is so far from the rest of the story. The realisation that occurs in ‘Bliss’ is that Bertha finds out that her husband, Harry, is having an†¦show more content†¦Miss Brill, the main character throughout the story is repressed by her lifestyle. She does not realise this till after a specific event has occurred and is blissfully happy at the beginning. Miss Brill every Sunday afternoon would go to the park, sit on a bench and generally watch people. She is happy to do this week after week and her happiness is exposed in the way she always has positive comments about people such as ‘they were beautifully dressed’ and ‘the hero and the heroine of course†¦Ã¢â‚¬â„¢ These are all positive comments and she literally says in the text how much she enjoys it, ‘oh, how fascinating it was! How she enjoyed it. How she loved sitting there.’ On criticism she does make is of the other people who are there every week and she describes them as ‘odd, silent, nearly all old, and from the way they stared they looked as thought they’d come from dark little rooms or even- even cupboards.’ This line has a major relevance to her repression as these people she is describing, she is one of them, yet she doesn’t realise it till the end. The realisation occurs towards the end when the heroine, the girl made an unpleasant comment about Miss Brill. Miss Brill, who is obviously listening soon comes to a realisation that not everyone is as kind as her and she is, in fact one of them old people. This ties inShow MoreRelatedThe Theme Of Loneliness1549 Words   |  7 PagesIn â€Å"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,† by Hemingway and Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield what they both have in common is the literary device theme loneliness. Theme is the general idea or insight revealed in a narrative. These two stories are also different from the style of writing these two authors wrote how to tell their stories. Loneliness is introduced in the beginning of the short story â€Å"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place† by Hemingway. The deaf old man, with no wife and only a niece to care for himRead MoreHistory of the Development of the Short Story.3660 Words   |  15 PagesThe Short Story. Basic Literary Elements of The Short Story. 1.1.History of The Development of The Short Story. 1.1.1.Early Forms.Origins. The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels or books. Short story definitions based upon length differ somewhat even among professional writers