What is the point of view in “Miss Brill”? How does this method improvethe story?
What will be an ideal response?
- “Miss Brill” is written with selective omniscience: from the third-person viewpoint of a nonparticipant, but one who sees events through the eyes of the story’s protagonist. In paragraph 5, Miss Brill notices that there is “something funny” about her fellow park sitters: “They were odd, silent, nearly all old, and from the way they stared they looked as though they’d just come from dark little rooms or even— even cupboards!” (That she might look the same to them never enters her head— until she is forced to see herself as others see her.) Because we as readers experience the day’s happenings from the perspective of Miss Brill, we come to understand and to sympathize with the sweet old dear, even going along with her sudden view of herself as an actress in a play performed every Sunday. To an intense degree we share her dismay and hurt when she overhears herself called a “stupid old thing” and her furpiece ridiculed as “exactly like a fried whiting.”
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II. GramáticaA. Humberto and Álvaro have been roommates for a year and now they are packing up to go home to their parents for the summer. Complete their conversation with possessive pronouns.
Humberto:¿Dónde está el microondas?Álvaro:Ya lo puse en mi coche.Humberto:Pero, el microondas es 1.________________________. Lo traje de la casa de mis padres.Álvaro:No señor, no es 2.________________________. Mi padre me lo compró en septiembre. Pero la tostadora y la cafetera son 3.________________________. Las compraste la segunda semana de clases.Humberto:¿Qué vamos a hacer con la aspiradora? Es 4.________________________ porque tú y yo la compramos juntos.Álvaro:Si quieres, puedes llevártela por ahora. Podemos usarla el año que viene.Humberto:¿Qué vas a hacer con los platos?Álvaro:Tengo que devolvérselos a mi hermano. Son 5.________________________. Blank #1 Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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a. amigos con intereses similares b. parientes de generaciones anteriores c. investigadores serios
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a. chronological order b. narration c. process d. example