"Just at that moment a boy and a girl came and sat down where the old couple had been. They were beautifully dressed; they were in love." (Page 185)
Miss Brill is definitely an odd character. At first, she seems to be a stereotypical old lady. She gets dressed up, goes to a park on a Sunday, and sits and watches people as a band plays. All she needs is a bag of crumbs with which to feed the birds and she could be the woman in Mary Poppins who feeds the birds. la la la music. However, she isn't a typical old lady. The reader gets to understand her emotions through her actions. She loves her fur fox that presides on her neck, but she is hurt when the young couple make fun of it as they sit and talk to each other beside her at the park. That is the moment when the reader truly sees that she is a woman with feelings just like an young person.
Not only is she an emotional being, but she is also an excellent and extremely consistent people-watcher. Hence the above photo that proclaims a newscast that stated the Top 10 Best People Watching Spots. The news site that boasted the knowledge of these 10 spots is a local news station of no consequence to me, so their top 10 spots are irrelevant to me, or I would have included the list in this blog.
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