The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Pgs 101-137)

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As the book comes to an end, we are told what happened to the "set" in the future and how was that Sandy betrayed Miss Brodie and why did she do it. In the previous chapters of the book, Miss Brodie was in an affair with Mr. Lowther but everyone knew that the one she loved was Mr. Lloyd who was already married and had a family. Mr. Lowther ended up marrying Ms. Lockhart. Of the whole set Miss. Brodie had ambitions for Sandy because she got insight, and Rose because she got instinct. Rose has been modeling for Mr. Lloyd who was making a lot of portraits that had a resemblance in Miss Brodie. Mr. Lloyd was going to paint the whole set, but in every portrait there was a resemblance of Miss Brodie. Miss Brodie wanted Rose to be Mr. Lloyd's lover and she wanted to have Sandy as an informant of the affair. But in the end the reverse happened. Joyce Emily, who had come to the Blaine School as a last attempt since she has been obliged to withdraw from a variety of expensive school because of her deliquency. She did not belong to the set and the girls did not pay much attention to her either because they had outside interests. However, Miss Brodie had time for her. Joyce Emily was frustrated because her brother had been sent to fight in the Spanish Civil War and she wanted to go and fight as well. Miss Brodie persuaded Joyce Emilio to go to Spain and fight for Franco but she was killed in an accident when the train she was traveling in had been attacked. once a term, Miss Mackay always went to tea with the Brodie set with the intention of finding information about Miss Brodie in order to get her fired. This is when Sandy betrayed Miss Brodie. She told Miss Mackay that they wont be able to find anything wrong with Miss Brodie when talking about sex, but that they should think about politics. So she told her that Miss Brodie was a fascist. The main reason why Sandy did this was because of the fact that Miss Brodie persuaded Joyce Emily to go and fight in the Spanish Civil War. After Sandy finished with school she became a nun and most of the girls of the set will always go and visit her. Since she was interested in psychology, she wrote a book about it and they asked her what influenced her and she answered, "There was a Miss Jean Brodie in her Prime."

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"During that time he painted a little, and she said: "You are still making me look like Jean Brodie." So he started a new canvas, but it was the same again.

She said: "Why are you obsessed with that woman? Can't you see she's ridiculous?" " (Spark 131).

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As I was reading this part in the book, I got the sense that Sandy felt jealousy towards Miss Brodie. I think it is because Miss Brodie is always the center of attention and people liked her with the exception of the school's staff. Also because no matter how hard the people in the school tried to find something wrong with Miss Brodie, they could not find anything. In the end, even though she used the excuse of "fascism," her main purpose was to stop Miss Brodie from being the center of attention.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Pgs 51-100)

Summary:
As the narration goes on, most of the teachers in the school do not like Ms. Brodie. The only exceptions are Mr. Gordon Lowther, the singing teacher for the whole school and Mr. Teddy Lloyd, the senior girl's art master. Ms. Brodie has an affair with Mr. Lloyd and Monica Douglas see them kissing. The problem is that Mr. Lloyd is married, so she renounced him and starts having an affair with Mr. Lowther. Even though she is with Mr. Lowther, the one that she loves is Mr. Lloyd and it starts to be noticeable when she start asking questions to the set about him. The narrator keeps going back and forth by giving information about the future, this time it was told that Sandy is the one that betrays Ms. Brodie. In the past, when the girls knew about the affair between Ms. Brodie and Mr. Lowther, Sandy and Jenny were the ones looking for information about this "relationship" Ms. Brodie was having. This relationship also served as a way for the teachers at the school to use against Ms. Brodie. The girls were now in the Senior School, and the headmistress did anything she could to separate the set but Ms. Brodie interfered and was successful. Even thought they in the Senior school, they kept a close relationship to Ms. Brodie.

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"By which time Sandy had already betrayed Miss Brodie and Miss Brodie was laid in her grave" (Sparks 91).

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I noticed how they keep repeating stuff in the book. Like on the first section they repeated "the crème de la crème," and now in this one they kept repeating that Sandy was the one that betrayed Miss Brodie. From the way Sandy is behaving and looking for information about Miss Brodie and her affair, I can infer that she is going to use this against her. The way she is going to do it is by saying it to the school officials, whom only need to know something bad about Miss Brodie to make her leave her prime and the school.