Mrs. Brill lived her life in a faade.

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Mrs. Russell

        Mrs. Brill lived her life in a façade. Mrs. Brill appeared to be very lonely. To mask her loneliness, she often concerned herself with everyone else's affairs. She tried to make herself feel that she was better than other people. Mrs. Brill had a lot of sadness and hurt hidden inside of her.

        Mrs. Brill was a very lonely person. She had a lot of negative qualities to hide her many insecurities. For example she was very vain. She spoke of her "special seat" that only two other people shared with her. It was as if she were saying that she was the only person deserving enough to sit there. Most likely, she spoke like that because she was trying not to think of the fact that she was sitting there alone. She never talked about having a significant other in the story but rather at the end of the story it said that she went home to an empty “little dark room”. She may have been alone because she only connected with people who acted the same way that she did. For example, Mrs. Brill spoke of a woman who dropped her flowers and when a little boy came to pick them up for her, she threw them away as if "they were poisoned". The woman showed no kind of appreciation for the courtesy that the little boy displayed. Mrs. Brill obviously connected with this woman on some level because she said that she did not know “whether to admire that or not”. A normal person with respect for others would look at that woman with disgust but she had to think about whether she liked the way the woman acted or not.

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        Mrs. Brill was constantly criticizing other people. She was always concerning herself with the way that they were dressed or whom they were with. For example, Mrs. Brill spoke of a lady who was wearing an “ermine toque”.         She felt that the lady must have bought that when her skin coloring was brighter because she said that, “Now everything, her hair, her face, even her eyes, was the same colour as the shabby ermine”. By making this statement Mrs. Brill was not only criticizing the lady but she was trying to imply that she was better looking and had a ...

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