Week 6 Liphook

Thoughts on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

What is her Relation on ‘her Girls’?

·       They are alternative lives for her now she is past her prime?

·      They are a ‘sounding box’ by which she avoids self-knowledge?

·      She gives them the best sort of education:  questioning, even  she herself?

·      They express her need to protest, be different, challenge values?

·       The exemplify for her some loss, bitterness, sense of failure?  What?

·       Could we say each represents a part of her own mind:  lover, betrayer, victim. . . ?

·       Does she ‘abuse her power’ or not?

·       Suppose the Head were not such a narrow person?

Sandy looked back at her companions and understood them as a body with Miss Brodie for the head. She perceived herself, the absent Jenny, the ever-blamed Mary, Rose, Eunice, and Monica, all in a frightening little moment, in unified compliance to the destiny of Miss Brodie, as if God had willed them to birth for that purpose