In Katherine Mansfield's story "Miss Brill", the main character, Miss Brill, escapes to the park every Sunday afternoon to take her place in the performance in progress. She spends her time listening and fantasizing about her environment. The park symbolizes a useful place, individual significance and community for the protagonist. For some people, the park is a meeting place or even a place to have fun; however, for Miss Brill, the sole purpose of the park was her personal entertainment. She went there regularly on Sunday afternoons to listen to other people's conversations. Miss Brill considered herself an “expert…able to listen as if she were not listening” (par. 3). By listening to others around her, it allowed her to escape her loneliness and enter into their lives. Not only did she listen, but she judged their appearances while making up scenarios in her head about their lives outside of the park. Referring to the ordinary people who came Sunday after Sunday, Miss Brill noted that "[they] were strange... [and] looked like they had come....