"But to-day she passed the baker's boy, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room - her room like a cupboard - and sat down on the red eiderdown." (Mansfield 87)
This sentence is important because it gave me the impression that she had been destroyed by what the boy and girl had said about her in the park. Earlier in the story, she talks about people who looked like they had been kept in a "cupboard" and by referring to her own room as such, it gives the feeling that what was, at first, a fun and magical day for her has been taken away from her and she was forced to return to an unhappy world.
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Yes, "destroyed," that's the word I was searching for! Poor Miss. Brill, being so happy and then just knocked for a loop; hate when that happens! I suppose even if she had stopped for the cake, the missing almond may have really sent her over the edge; it's always the little things followed by the supression of a bigger deal.
ReplyDeleteI liked the fact that Miss Brill recognized that she too was a "character of theatre" at the park. "..., she was part of the performance after all. How strange she'd never thought of it like that before!" (Wolff 86). It saddened me to see that she ended up being the casualty in her own scene.
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