Katherine Mansfield, a British female writer, was a bright star in English Literature World in the 1920s. She was famous for her short novels written in unique style all around the world. Mansfield had a good command of depicting the trivia of life and describing delicate changes of human beings’ emotions, especially women’s sensitive and exquisite feelings at the bottom of their hearts. Miss Brill, written in 1920s, was a classic of this kind of short novels. This paper will explore Miss Brill’s mind style by transitivity analysis of the novel and further reveal her social marginalization. Through analyzing Miss Brill’s activities on Sunday, it is founded that Miss Brill’s mind style mainly has changed from an outsider of social activities to an observer of social activities, an imaginary participant of social activities, and finally to a social abandonee. At the same time, loneliness penetrates all through Miss Brill’s mind style.

Tian Yinjuan. A Transitivity Analysis of Miss Brill’s Mind Style in Miss Brill. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 1: 130-136. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070120.

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