Miss Emily VS Miss Brill

In the two stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, two women are living as if they have nothing to live for. Both women are extremely different but at the same time quite the same. Miss Emily and Miss Brill are both isolated from the world around them but for different reasons. Both succeed in controlling the environment they live in. However, Miss Brill handles it better than Miss Emily. While Miss Brill goes out and faces the world around her, Miss Emily commits murder in order to keep things the way they are.
Miss Brill, as an archetypal character, is seen as an outcast in society. She is written off as a horror by a code that condemns her on the grounds of sex, age, beauty, poverty, and singleness. First, she is a woman. Women were seen as inferior to men at this time in history. Second, Miss Brill seems to be a woman who is in her late thirties. Miss Brill finds joy in the weather, her fur, and in her secret theater that s...