The Aging Process in Katherine Mansfields Miss Brill Essay -- Miss Bri

Katherine Mansfields cast Brill perfectly captures the phases ones mind goes through when faced with becoming old. Elderly mass tend to be nostalgic, even sentimental about their youth. In later years, the nostalgia can develop into senility or fantasy. The ermine fur in turn tail Brill is the catalyst of her nostalgia and symbolizes the passing of time in three stages an expectant youth, a vital adulthood, and finally, a development into old age and fantasy.The story opens with discharge Brills excitement that the season has arrived for social engagements perhaps it is the tourist season when the ladies debut their latest fashions. With all the expectancy of a young girl looking prior to courtship, Miss Brill unpacks her prized and most fashionable possession, the ermine fur. While unpacking the fur, the reader is aware that Miss Brill is lapsing into elderly nostalgia because she speaks to the fur in such delighted tones. Miss Brill refers to her ermine fur as her Little Rogu e(182). We learn that the ermine fur is fragile and in disrepair we sense that Miss Brill is, to...