In the short story “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, the are many examples where the author uses pathos to personify Miss Brill. Miss Brill’s description of how she spends her Sundays strikes the reader as sad, lonely, and very interesting. Miss Brill seems like a very sad person, in her own way. In the story, the reader understands that Miss Brill goes to the same park every Sunday, to do basically the same thing …showed first 75 words of 605 total…

…showed last 75 words of 605 total…things in, and process them deeply, but the way that she pretends they are all in a play shows that she is slightly delusional, and she really wants people to notice her and be friends with her. The use of pathos in the story brings together the qualities that make Miss Brill who she is. The pathos allows the reader to understand Miss Brill, and also to see the qualities that stand out about her.