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In "Miss Brill," Miss Brill's actual age is not given, although the reader can assume she is at least middle-aged. A schoolteacher from England who is in France, Miss Brill is a lonely woman with a vibrant imagination. She likes to sit in the public gardens every Sunday and watch and listen to the people around her. She seems to be somewhat delusional about her own importance to the scene, deciding she is an "actress" and everyone there is playing a part. Her loneliness becomes apparent at the end, when a young couple says rude things about her and she goes home in a sober, melancholy mood.