"Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield - Is Miss Brill Living?

"But when she put thel id on she thought she heard something crying." I see this as potential support of Miss Brill being dead, whether it be literal or in the spiritual sense. She might be dead to herself. I find this as a very legitimate question. Miss Brill seems to have been around a while, but she still hasn't been able to establish any close relationship with someone. That's why she is stuck to watching people. By the end of the story, she decides that she is done. I think this is her dying to herself. She has lost all hope. The putting away of the fur symbolizes the end of her. But, maybe that means she is going to go out and try a new life. Maybe she is going to try to change her life radically. That is more likely the best answer to the question of her state of being.