Stylistic Devices and their Role in the Character Presentation of the Protagonist in the Short Story by Catherine Mansfield "Miss Brill"
The article gives a comprehensive analysis of the character presentation of the protagonist in the short story by Catherine Mansfield “Miss Brill”. The goal of the work is to analyze the image of the protagonist taking into consideration all the stylistic peculiarities and its objective is to determine stylistic devices and expressive means and the means of character presentation as well as to define their role in the image interpretation. To achieve their goal the authors resort to the method of stylistic investigation and means of the interpretation of the literary text. The hypothesis of the investigation under study: the author conveys the composite character of a lonely woman, plain in appearance but with a rich inner world and emphasizes the discrepancy between her ideas and the reality. The proposed hypothesis is confirmed in the course of the research taking into consideration all the means of the character presentation being a component of the interpretation and the linguistic analysis of the literary text.