Symbolism In Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill

Miss Brill's isolation characteristics is exposed at the beginning of the “Miss Brill” when she fetches the fur from the box. Miss Brill pretends the fur is saying to her, “"What has been happening to me?’ said the sad little eyes. Oh, how sweet it was to see them snap at her again from the red eiderdown!’” (Mansfield 4) Miss Brill imagines the fur coming to life when she gives it a “voice and emotions, when in reality, it is an inanimate object.” (Veleveteen 28). Mansfield uses this to reveal that she does not have any other friends or acquaintances in which to socialize with when she carries the fur with her all day, pretending it is her pet.
Throughout the story, Mansfield allows the reader to connect to Miss Brill by using her lonely