Miss Brill spends most of her days on a park bench. She doesn’t do so to simply enjoy the fresh air, but mainly in hopes that she will share a conversation with one of the two people who enjoyed the same seat in the park. This never happens though and she is down on this as she was looking forward to it. The bench itself represents hope that something she is expecting will happen. However, Miss Brill doesn’t view the bench as a symbol of disappointment.