Quote-Response-Blog 4

I found the story Miss Brill very interesting. It kind of caught me off guard how it ended and I liked it.

"She thought of the old invalid gentleman to whom she read the newspaper four afternoons a week while he slept in the garden. She had got quite used to the frail head on the cotton pillow, the hollowed eyes, the open mouth and the high pinched nose. If he'd been dead she mightn't have noticed for weeks; she wouldn't have minded. But suddenly he knew he was having the paper read to him by an actress! 'An Actress!' The old head lifted; two points of light quivered in the old eyes. 'An actress-are ye?' And Miss Brill smoothed the newspaper as through it were the manuscript of her part and said gently: 'Yes, I have been an actress for a long time.'" (Kennedy, 86)

I think this quote is kind of hilarious. She just now, in the story, 'figures out' that she is in a play. And now she is making this scenario of what is going to be happening from now on because she is so 'famous.' How this old man is going to finally figure out she is an actress and it's going to change everything. Also, she says how she has been an actress for a long time and just 'realized' she was in a play. This really gives insight on what Mr. Brill thinks about and how she views herself. She wants to be important and thinks that everyone notices her; yet in the end she hears two kids talking about her and how ridiculous she looks with her fur that she was so proud of wearing.