"Miss Brill": Emptiness In One's Life In "Miss Brill," Katherine Mansfield describes an aging teacher who visits a public park on a weekly basis. Every Sunday afternoon, Miss Brill ventures to the park at the same time and watches the band play. On this Sunday, Miss Brill wears her old fur coat. To her, the fur coat was a long lost friend. She had not worn the coat in a long time and it gave her a sense of joy to wear it again. When she arrives at the park, Miss Brill watches the band play and studies the crowd of people. She studies them with such an intensity that she feels