Essay - This Paper is a Compare and Contrast Essay that Illustrates...

This paper is a Comp*****re and Contrast essay that illustrates the characters of two stories named Miss Brill and A Rose For Miss Emily. The paper shows how both characters were similar and different in their ways, personalities and attitude. This ***** also highlights some quotes from the stories to support its claim.

Compare and Contrast

Rose For Miss ***** by William Faulkner and Miss Brill by Ka*****rine Mansfield relates the s*****ries of ***** women who had been through a lot in their p*****st lives and were trying to relive their past in their present. The characters of both Miss Emily ***** ***** ***** are the same. While Miss Brill relates her past to ***** present with happy thoughts, Miss Emily considers her ***** an era that is trying ***** drift her away from her past. Both the characters of M*****s ***** and Miss Emily symbolize loneliness. ***** Miss Brill tries to communicate with ***** outer world, Miss Emily on the other hand shuts herself away ***** her neighbors and town people. Both the characters are ***** same and yet so different in ***** attitude and their pers*****ality.

***** the beginning of both ***** stories, the audience very well realizes that both women are lonely. While Miss ***** tries to fight her loneliness *****, Miss Emily tries to make her peace with it. Miss Brill would come out e***** Sunday out in***** the park and witness the people around ***** go through so much. She ***** sit in her seat and watch all the actors perform for her.

*****re were a number ***** ***** out this afternoon, far more than last Sunday. And ***** band sounded louder and gayer. That was because the Season had begun. For although the band played all the year round on *****s, out of seas***** it was never the same. It was like some one playing with only ***** family to listen; it didn't care ***** ***** played if t*****e *****n't any strangers present" (Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill).

***** ***** finds it hard ***** let go of her past after her fat*****'s death. She, un***** Miss Brill possesses an obstinate *****look towards life and completely refuses to change her style ***** living. "After ***** father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at *****" (***** Faulkner, A Rose For Miss Emily).

*****s a result of l*****liness, ***** Miss ***** *****nd Miss ***** are dependent upon certain figures in their lives. ***** Brill is dependent upon the ***** and her fur, her companions during the times ***** forlornness.

M*****s Brill put up her hand and ********** her fur. Dear little thing! ***** was nice to feel it again. She had taken it out of *****s box th***** afternoon, shaken out the moth powder, given it a good brush, *****nd rubbed the ***** back into the dim ***** eyes... Oh, how sweet it was to see them snap at her again from the red eiderdown!... But ***** nose, which