Miss Brill - An image of today's society?

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Introduction to Literature, language: English, abstract: The world moves up and people get connected with each other more and more via internet and television. Nevertheless, within this closer-getting world everybody knows the feeling of being lonely and deserted among the crowd. In her short story "e;Miss Brill"e; Katherine Mansfield depicts a lonely woman's way of ignoring her status of solitude and at last her failure in it. Every Sunday Miss Brill breaks her solitude by going out into the park, not only for observing but also eavesdropping other people there, slipping into their lives for a moment. As a result she thinks to escape isolation an idea which is destroyed very brutally in the end.