Now we begin to wonder about her grasp on reality. She believes that she is an "actress", that she and everyone else has a specific part to play on this "stage" of life within the park. Her belief in her own importance in this play is displayed in her statement, "No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn't been there; she was a part of the performance after all...
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There is a touch of foreshadowing in her imagined statement to the old man that she reads to; "Yes, I have been an actress for a long time."(52) This statement causes the reader to wonder how much of what came before was real and how much was fantasy. Early in the story Miss Brill lets us know that she feels she is different from the other regulars in the park when she thinks of them: "They were odd, silent, nearly all old, and from the way they stared they looked as though they'd just come from dark little rooms or even-even cupboards!"(51) In the final paragraph, Miss Brill sees herself going "into the little dark room?her room like a cupboard"(52) and this is when she realizes that she is no different than the other old people in the gardens...
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