The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
A lady called Muriel Spark wrote this book in 1961. The author herself was actually born and educated in Edinburgh, and then spent some years in central Africa. She returned to Britain during the war. For a time she worked for the political intelligence department of the foreign office. Then in 1961 she wrote this book.The book takes place in Edinburgh in 1931, before the Second World War. The main character being a female teacher called Miss Jean Brodie. She was a spinster although she would have confessed to such thing. She prided herself on the teaching of five little girls, whom went by the names of: Rose Stanley, Monica Douglas, Sandy Stranger, Jenny Gray, and Mary Macgregor. These girls in miss Brodie's opinion were to be the creme de la creme. Let me tell you a little about the characters personalities. Miss Brodie in my opinion is a very arrogant woman who considers herself her very important figure of importance; take for example page fourteen. 'If only you small girls would listen to me, I could make you the creme de la creme. The Brodie set consisted of five girls as I have already told you. Let me go into a little more detail on each.
Eunice Gardiner, known best for her talent at sports, mainly gymnastics and swimming. She does not play a very big part in the group, but she did create amusement when they went to miss boride's for tea, she would do handstands and other such balancing acts, miss Brodie called her ' an Ariel'. There were three teachers, which also play important roles in the book. These are; Mr lowther, Mr. Lloyd, and the headmistress, Miss MacKay. Although it was perfectly respectable for miss Brodie to be seeing Mr. Lowther, miss MacKay did not seem to approve. This was how all the complications started. Even before this line of events, miss MacKay had not approved of miss boride's way of teaching; these events only gave her more reason to dislike her. When Mr lowther looses hope that she will ever marry him, he marries another teacher at the school, Mr Lloyd is already married, catholic and has six or more children. Both of these men had loved her and would have been willing to do anything for her, but alas, she rejects the affections bested upon her by Mr Lloyd and Mr lowther never seems to make her happy. This book explains how life was before the Second World War in Edinburgh and describes the simple ways of those people's everyday lives.
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Approximate Word count = 1162
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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