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Miss Brill Things Are Not Always What They Seem: Similarities Between Miss Brill and Jim An old, fragile Anglo woman stands beside a young, muscular, and massively tall black man. The woman, Miss Brill, looks eagerly at the people surrounding her, enjoying the sight. The young man, Jim, stands with his arms crossed and a stark look upon his face. The two are strikingly different in appearance; however, internally Miss Brill and Jim are shockingly similar. Both Miss Brill and Jim live in fantasy worlds that are completely their own. Miss Brill sits on a park bench and watches people, thoroughly convinced that life is a live drama before her eyes. “Oh, how fascinating it was! How she enjoyed it! How she loved sitting here, watching it all! It was like a play. It was exactly like a play” (Mansfield 1). Agreeing with Miss Brill’s fantasy world, Michelle, a critic, declares, “The story is completely the language Miss Brill uses to describe her world” (Taylor). Meanwhile, Jim sits in his hotel room barking orders to the hotel manager, Olaf, playing the role of the master of the hotel. He commands, “I want a bottle jim, miss, brill, people, olaf, olaf’s, young, society, however, hotel, couple, worlds, world, woman, ungrateful, thankful, play, old, neck, man, loved, live, car, being, wright, things, teenager, stands, size, sits, seem, room, role, rather, quick