View Poll Results: "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie": Final Verdict

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Thread: March / Muriel Spark Reading: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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    Pièce de Résistance Scheherazade's Avatar
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    Is it possible that Sandy was punishing herself for betraying JB?

    I wonder if JB refused her suitors because she likes being a tragic, lonely figure?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Is it possible that Sandy was punishing herself for betraying JB?
    Yes, it is. That is the best possible explanation for her choice IMO.

    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    I wonder if JB refused her suitors because she likes being a tragic, lonely figure?
    JB has created an image of herself as a different, enigmatic soul among the girls and teachers of the school. She seems obsessed with this established image and tries her best to maintain it. It is quite possible that she really enjoys living like that.
    I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake

    Captivity is consciousness,
    So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson

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