THE UNEMPLOYED "BLASÉ ATTITUDE" AND THE ARTIST FIGURE: READING KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S "MISS BRILL"...

By analysing Katherine Mansfield's 1922 story "Miss Brill" and applying Georg Simmel's "The Metropolis and Mental Life" as a significant contribution to social theories that address individuals' manners and psychological states in metropolitan life, this paper investigates the lives of individuals in an urban setting. We also use "The Painter of Modern Life" by Charles Baudelaire, notably the essential word "Flâneur," which defines the artist figure as "the man of the throng." According to Simmel, city people have a coping mechanism known as the "blasé attitude," which causes them to ignore the city's hustle and bustle in order to cope with the hurry and volatility of modern life and maintain their sanity. As a result, a city inhabitant uses the "blasé attitude" as a distinguishing characteristic.

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