"Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield

"The old people sat on a bench, still as statues. Never mind, there was always the crowd to watch."

       Miss Brill is such an ironic character. She goes to the park to people watch the crowd. However when she sees other old people doing the same as she, she considers them boring. What's more is that she herself is by no means in her youth. By calling these old people watchers boring, she simply separates herself from them, when in reality she is no different. The same goes for the woman she sees greeting the man who walks away from her after losing interest. She pities her, yet Miss Brill is the one who is lonely. She is the one who needs pitied. The rude, harsh young man who says such mean things to her simply opens her eyes to the fact that she is not any higher than those around her, and perhaps that she should not pass judgement so quickly.