QUOTE:
"They were all on the stage. They weren't only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting. Even she had a part and came every Sunday. No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn't been there; she was part of the performance after all." (Mansfield; p.86)
RESPONSE:
Isn't this how most of us would like to feel about our life in general? We would all like to have some reassurance that without us the "show" simply could not go on; that we would indeed be missed if absent from life's daily drama.
In this passage Miss Brill has just made a profound realization about her particular role as a simple spectator on the park bench each Sunday afternoon. Her thoughts support the analogy that "all the world is a stage," as William Shakespeare so eloquently put it. Each of us is a character, an actor in the play of life; and without us, life simply would not be the same.
I would like to believe that my part in life is noteworthy. I am sure that Miss Brill would enjoy that same personal comfort as well.
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