Line #17 Literature/ThePrimeOfMissJeanBrodie


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3	->''"I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life. You girls are my vocation. If I were to receive a proposal of marriage from Lord Lyon, King of Arms, I would decline it. I am dedicated to you in my prime. And my summer in Italy has convinced me that I am truly in my prime."''
4	--> -- '''Jean Brodie'''
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6	First published in 1961, ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' is probably the best-known novel by the Scottish author Muriel Spark.
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8	Set at Edinburgh's conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in the 1930s, the novel deals with the eponymous schoolteacher and her 'set', whose futures and loyalties she seeks to influence along Calvinist (and, increasingly, Fascist) lines. This is put against Miss Brodie's two romances -- with Mr Lowther, Marcia Blaine's singing master, a church elder and bachelor; and Mr Lloyd, the school's art master, a married Roman Catholic with several children -- as well as the attempts of the school's headmistress, Miss Mackay, to remove Brodie from her post.
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10	The novel has been variously adapted into a play, a film, and a television miniseries. The best-known adaptation is probably the 1969 film, directed by Ronald Neame and starring Creator/MaggieSmith, who won a Best Actress UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for her performance in the title role. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen stays fairly true to the spirit of Spark's novel, but still makes quite a few changes, most notably pruning a few characters (reducing the 'set' from six to four and [[CompositeCharacter combining]] the ill-fated new girl Joyce Emily Hammond with the dim-witted Mary [=MacGregor=]), discarding the novel's use of prolepsis and flashback in favour of condensing its later incidents into single scenes, and not mentioning the post-school fates of the girls. The film also stars Maggie Smith's then-husband Robert Stephens as Teddy Lloyd, Gordon Jackson as Mr Lowther, Celia Johnson as Miss Mackay (for which she won a UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}}) and Creator/PamelaFranklin as Sandy (in her most famous role apart from ''Film/TheInnocents''). The miniseries, produced for Creator/{{ITV}} in 1978, stars Geraldine [=McEwan=] (''Series/{{Marple}}'') as Miss Brodie.
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13	!! The novel provides examples of:
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15	* AlasPoorScrappy: In-universe example. Mary is TheFriendNobodyLikes and gets bullied by all the girls, Miss Brodie included. When she dies at only twenty-four in pitiful circumstances (a fire breaks out in her hotel, and she gets confused and can't find the way out) they are heartbroken. Even Miss Brodie says "I should have been nicer to Mary".
16	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Joyce Emily Hammond is disliked by the Brodie set for having a different uniform and expensive allowance.
17	* AmbiguouslyBi: There is subtext that Sandy may have had a crush or sexual attraction to Miss Brodie as well, while also showing sexual interest in men.
18	* AmbiguouslyGay: Sandy at times thinks Jean might be a lesbian, since she doesn't marry Mr. Lowther.
19	* AnachronicOrder: The story is told in flashback. As the events at Marcia Blaine progress linearly, the fates of the Brodie Set are revealed before the ending.
20	* AssimilationAcademy: Marcia Blaine School is an interesting example as its conservatism is somewhat diminished in the face of Brodie's fascism. This is played up in the film, where the grey uniforms and interiors of Marcia Blaine are contrasted with Brodie's colorful outfits.
21	* BrokenPedestal: Miss Brodie certainly becomes this by the end, although it is questionable whether Sandy's perception of her has simply changed due to age and circumstance.
22	* ButtMonkey: Mary Macgregor is bullied by everyone in the Brodie set, including Miss Brodie herself.
23	* CoolTeacher: Played with. Miss Brodie definitely motivates her pupils to learn beyond the curriculum, and thumbs her nose at school authorities, but her impact on her pupils is questionable.
24	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Discussed. At one point Jean considers that Mary [=McGregor=] was the one who betrayed her, after years of being their scapegoat. A few of them say "I should have been nicer to Mary."
25	* CuteClumsyGirl: Mary is described as clumsy, but it endears her to the others.
26	* DeceptiveDisciple: Sandy. Even after betraying Miss Brodie, she still keeps in contact with her.
27	* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the BlitheSpirit CoolTeacher character. Miss Brodie's students all have their lives wrecked due to her influence, and she has no remorse about it.
28	* DeliberateValuesDissonance:
29	** Jean Brodie and many others are Fascists, and think Hitler and Mussolini will improve the world. As the book has sequences set after the war, this is used for DramaticIrony.
30	** Jean Brodie also repeatedly has to pretend she and Mr. Lowther are just close friends, and pretends she doesn't spend the night at his estate. When a nightgown that could be hers is found in his room, it nearly gets her dismissed.
31	%%* DevotedToYou: Teddy Lloyd for Jean Brodie.
32	%%* TheDitz: Poor Mary [=McGregor=].
33	* DoggedNiceGuy: Devoted, somewhat naïve Mr. Lowther who tries for years to convince his lover Miss Brodie to marry him (unaware that she sees him as unsatisfactory substitute for Teddy Lloyd). He avoids becoming a [[NiceGuysFinishLast complete sucker]] by finally dropping her and becoming engaged to the chemistry teacher.
34	* DoubleThink: Jean, in regards to her behavior with Mr. Lowther, and her hopes for Jenny and Mr. Lloyd
35	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: One of the girls has died, Jean Brodie is fired from the school and all her pupils have their lives wrecked due to her influence. She goes her whole life never knowing who betrayed her; only on her deathbed does she consider that it could have been Sandy]].
36	* DyingAlone: It's said that Miss Brodie dies alone, with her faithful disciple now a nun for a faith she despised, finally suspecting Sandy could have been the betrayer.
37	* EtTuBrute: The narration actually compares Brodie to Caesar.
38	* FirstNameBasis: It's considered shocking that at Crammond, Mr. Lowther starts calling Miss Brodie "Jean".
39	* FixFic: Sandy and Jenny write their own version of Miss Brodie's story, where Hugh returns.
40	* {{Foil}}: Miss Lockhart for Miss Brodie. Whereas Miss Brodie has her set of preferred students, Miss Lockhart sees all of hers equally. Miss Brodie is all about art and culture, while Miss Lockhart is about science and study. [[spoiler: Miss Lockhart is who Mr Lowther ultimately picks]].
41	* TheFool: Mary is at first not allowed to study the classics because of her poor grades. Miss Mackay lets her study Latin in exchange for information on Miss Brodie. But Mary is too clueless to understand what she wants.
42	* {{Foreshadowing}}: In a chemistry lesson, Mary gets scared and runs around from flame to flame. This foreshadows her eventual death in a hotel fire where she can't find her way out - at the age of twenty-four.
43	* GirlPosse: Miss Brodie and her select girls, whom she calls ''la creme de la creme''.
44	* GloriousLeader: Played with in various ways. Deliberate parallels can be drawn between her and big political examples of this trope. Also, although some of her motivations are selfish and destructive, some are genuinely naive.
45	* GossipyHens: The other female teachers at Marcia Blaine are ''not'' fond of Miss Brodie and her exploits.
46	* HavingAGayOldTime: Subverted. Teddy says Miss Brodie is "a bit queer", but Sandy ''does'' suspect that her teacher could be a lesbian.
47	* HeelRealization: Years later all the girls (Miss Brodie included) regret how they bullied Mary.
48	* HotTeacher: Mr. Lowther and Mr. Lloyd certainly seem to think so. Mr. Lloyd himself falls into this trope, with several of the girls swooning over him. Mr. Lowther gets some of this as well, with Sandy and Jenny having a couple of sexual fantasies about him.
49	* IRejectYourReality: Jean. It's theorized that she hates Catholicism because it would force her to feel guilty about her actions.
50	* MeaningfulRename: When she becomes a nun later in life, Sandy is renamed Sister Helena.
51	* NeverMyFault: Miss Brodie never once considers that she's responsible for the terrible things that happen on her watch.
52	* NewTransferStudent: Joyce Emily Hammond.
53	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Jean assumes that Teddy is painting Rose because they will soon begin an affair. Teddy merely finds Rose a good model, and she only poses because she needs the money.
54	* TheObiWannabe: What else can one call a teacher whose romantic delusions [[spoiler: ''actually get one of her students killed'']]?
55	* ObliviousToLove: The Brodie set realize that both Mr. Lowther and Mr. Lloyd fancy Miss Brodie before she herself does.
56	* OneGenderSchool: As such, the girls fantasize about the two male teachers rather than students.
57	* PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher: And ''how''. Brodie never ceases to preach in favor of UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, then UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco. One of her students buys into it so much she goes off to fight with Franco's forces, and is killed.
58	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: It's said that the Brodie set have little in common with each other.
59	* RomanticRunnerUp:
60	** Miss Brodie puts Mr. Lowther in this role, she doesn't love him, but plans to marry him anyway. Later, Mr. Lowther puts Miss Lockhart in this role.
61	** One could argue that Teddy Lloyd's wife Deirdre ends up as this, due to his never-ending obsession with Jean Brodie.
62	* SarcasticDevotee: Sandy becomes this by the end.
63	* SelfServingMemory: When Mr. Lowther decides he's had enough of Jean and marries Miss Lockhart, she tries to claim that she suggested he pursue her.
64	* TagAlongKid: Joyce Emily, a new transfer student, who follows the Brodie set around.
65	* TakingTheVeil: Sandy converts to Catholicism and becomes a nun.
66	* TallDarkAndHandsome: Mr. Lloyd is this, and Mr Lowther wonders if this is why Jean Brodie won't marry him.
67	* TeacherStudentRomance: What Miss Brodie plans for one of her girls and Teddy Lloyd. Fulfilled, but not as planned.
68	* TeachersPet: All the Brodie set really.
69	** Sandy initially conforms to this trope; but moves sharply away from it.
70	** Joyce Emily fits this in later episodes; heck, she even dies trying to curry Brodie's favour.
71	* TeachersUnfavoriteStudent: Miss Brodie constantly belittles Mary Macgregor for her slowness and purported stupidity. This extends beyond school [[spoiler:and even to Mary's untimely death in a hotel fire]].
72	* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: Teddy is married to a woman called Deirdre but has unresolved sexual tension with Jean Brodie. Then Sandy has an affair with him too. Jean was planning for Rose to fill this role.
73	* TransferStudentUniforms: This singles-out Joyce Emily Hammond.
74	* ThoseWackyNazis: It can be a little odd to modern viewers/readers for how much Jean Brodie is into Fascism, as the story is set in a time when the political philosophy was somewhat romanticized by some members of the intelligentsia, and before it was so closely associated with brutal dictatorships and [[USefulNotes/TheHolocaust mass genocide]].
75	* TreacherousAdvisor: Since many of Miss Brodie's ambitions for her pupils, especially Rose/Jenny, simply involve using them to vicariously fulfil her own psychological needs, she could easily be seen as this trope.
76	* TurnCoat: Miss Mackay longs for one of Miss Brodie's girls to fill this role.
77	* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Sandy and Jenny wonder about their teacher's sex life with very little confirmation on how much is true.
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79	!! The 1969 film provides examples of:
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81	* AbledInTheAdaptation: Teddy Lloyd is missing an arm in the book, but not the film.
82	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Miss Mackay reads out the RealPersonFic Sandy and Jenny wrote of her, Jean finds it hilarious - especially when she gets to the twelve-year-olds' attempts at IKEAErotica.
83	* AdaptationExplanationExtrication:
84	** Miss Brodie says to Sandy of Teddy "you know his religion" as a way to discourage her. This makes more sense in the book, which emphasises the school's Calvinist teachings. Part of Sandy's attraction to Teddy is because he's Roman Catholic and she eventually converts to become a nun herself. In the film, these elements are downplayed.
85	** Sandy never attempts to get Teddy fired or punished in any way for having affairs with his students. In the book Sandy has dinner at his house, where she meets his wife Deirdre and their daughters - and it's implied she doesn't confess the affair out of sympathy for them. They don't feature in the film, and Sandy's personality is much more forceful, making it a little odd that [[spoiler: she'd betray Jean to get her fired]] but not Teddy. It could be that she doesn't find Teddy particularly dangerous. By the end of the film she has written him off as an aging mediocre painter in thrall to a truly dangerous woman.
86	** Mary's sudden desire to [[spoiler: run off and fight in the Spanish Civil War]] made a little more sense in the book, where it was a different student who did this - and in fact bonded with Miss Brodie over her support for Fascism. In the film it looks as though Mary gets the idea quite suddenly.
87	* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Sandy is much more confident and forceful in the film than she is in the book.
88	* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: [[spoiler: Sandy confronts Jean after she is fired and calls her out, before walking out of her life forever. In the book Jean never finds out who betrays her, Sandy remains at her side until her death in 1940 and she later becomes a nun]].
89	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Jean Brodie is described as grey-haired and sharp-featured - as well as already being middle-aged when the story begins. In the film, she's played by Maggie Smith in her early thirties - and portrayed as fashionable and attractive compared to the rest of the teachers. This blunts her self-delusion in referring to herself as "in my prime" despite clearly being intended as over the hill.
90	* AdaptationalHeroism:
91	** As noted under LighterAndSofter below, Jean Brodie is a bit more sympathetic in the film. It's shown she unambiguously cares for the girls, does not bully any of them and treats them as surrogate daughters. [[spoiler: Her dismissal at the end]] is presented as a somewhat tragic thing.
92	** Miss Mackay is far more manipulative in the novel, where she tries to weasel information out of the girls at several instances (bribing Mary that she can take a class she hasn't enough credits for if she gives information about Miss Brodie). She tries to even make up slanderous rumours about Jean - such as her being an alcoholic - which she does not in the film.
93	** The girls accept Mary into the fold immediately and, although they bully her, she properly becomes part of the group after she sees Jean and Teddy kissing. In the book Joyce Emily (who Mary is combined with) is hated immediately and never properly becomes part of the group. Mary is part of the group in the book but is bullied the whole time - Sandy at one point even resisting the impulse to be kind to her.
94	* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Sandy's betrayal of Jean in the film appears to be partially motivated by jealousy, and she calls her out epically for it, giving her a ReasonYouSuckSpeech towards the end. In the book, she remains at Jean's side until her death, and Jean never finds out who betrays her]].
95	* AloneInACrowd: Sandy, right at the end.
96	* BecauseYouCanCope: ''I knew you would rise like a phoenix''.
97	%%* BigNo: '''''Assassin!'''''
98	* BettyAndVeronica:
99	** Male example - Jean Brodie's two suitors are the kind and down-to-earth Gordon Lowther (Betty) and the sexy artist Teddy Lloyd (Veronica).
100	** Jean herself is the Veronica to Sandy's Betty, where Teddy Lloyd is concerned.
101	** Jean is also the Veronica to Ms Lockhart's Betty when Mr Lowther looks elsewhere.
102	* BewareTheQuietOnes: Miss Brodie fatally underestimates Sandy, seeing her mainly as a dependable spy.
103	* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The argument between Miss Mackay and Miss Brodie over the latter resigning.
104	** Jean has a point in that she's being persecuted for an incident she had nothing to do with. While she does influence her girls to take an interest in art and culture, she did not talk to them about sex at the point Jenny and Sandy wrote the story. That's simply two young girls going through puberty, having normal sexual fantasies that they discuss privately - and it's a complete accident that the paper was found. It's equal to punishing her for what someone else wrote in their diary.
105	** Miss Mackay meanwhile is aware that Miss Brodie's girls are falling behind in their other subjects, and her blatant favoritism is causing them to act out. While Sandy and Jenny came up with the story on their own, it's clearly influenced by anecdotes Miss Brodie ''did'' tell them. And at the time Miss Mackay busts them, they are engaging in inappropriate behavior with Mr Lloyd.
106	* BriefAccentImitation: Teddy Lloyd briefly imitates a Scottish accent when he encounters Ms Brodie and her girls on the street.
107	* BrokenBird: Sandy becomes broken and cynical as a result of [[spoiler: Teddy painting Jean's face on her body, Mary getting killed and finally realising what kind of person Jean really is]].
108	* BrutalHonesty:
109	** Teddy Lloyd, when he tells Miss Brodie that she is a frustrated schoolmarm with dangerous delusions of grandeur. He is also brutally honest about himself when he calls himself a second rate artist.
110	** Sandy who tells Teddy that he is an aging mediocre painter. She also calls the deceased Mary [=McGregor=] "stupid." And, of course, she also calls out Miss Brodie on her romantic delusions.
111	* TheBully: Sandy and the other Brodie girls initially bully Mary behind Miss Brodie's back. However, after Mary tells them she has seen Miss Brodie and Teddy Lloyd kissing, she is fully accepted by them.
112	* CerebusSyndrome: Instead of the book's AnachronicOrder, the film starts off as a mostly light-hearted ComingOfAgeStory until suddenly [[spoiler: Mary Macgregor dies in the Spanish Civil War]].
113	* CompositeCharacter:
114	** The film removes Joyce and Rose, giving their storylines to Mary and Jenny. Monica is also merged with Eunice. Mary meanwhile gets to be the one who sees Jean and Teddy kissing instead of Monica. Jenny also gets to be the one who does cartwheels to entertain instead of Monica.
115	** Miss Gaunt becomes combined with the Kerr sisters, who investigate Miss Brodie against her will. As does Miss Lockhart, taking the Kerr sisters' roles as the one who doesn't disapprove of Miss Brodie.
116	* DeadpanSnarker: Miss Brodie, Teddy Lloyd and Sandy all have a knack for devastating put downs.
117	* DeanBitterman: Downplayed. Miss Mackay ''is'' strict, unimaginative and fixated on duty. She is also correct about Miss Brodie's recklessness, however, and the harm it ultimately causes.
118	* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: While Mary does die in the book, it's much later in life in her twenties. Here she dies in the third act after attempting to fight in the Spanish Civil War]].
119	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler: Mary dies in the book when she's twenty-four in a hotel fire. In the film she dies in the Spanish Civil War, as she takes the place of Joyce Emily]].
120	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Jean Brodie's is to dismiss a Girl Guide who starts talking about her achievements, and to focus on Mary.
121	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange:
122	** Sandy has bobbed hair at the start of the film. As she gets older and wiser, her hair grows longer. It's past shoulder-length by the end.
123	** Likewise after the TimeSkip Mary has swapped her pigtails for side buns instead.
124	* FieryRedhead:
125	** Jean Brodie - red haired and determined. She's quite quick to fire up at the headmistress.
126	** Averted with Jenny, a pretty but unremarkable favorite of Miss Brodie who ludicrously describes her as "primitive and free."
127	* FourGirlEnsemble: With the set down to four girls in the film, they fall into these roles initially. Mary is the childish one, Jenny the pretty one, Monica the mannish one and Sandy the wise one. But eventually Mary's naivete [[spoiler: gets her killed]], Jenny doesn't become a great lover as Miss Brodie predicted and Sandy [[spoiler: has an affair with Teddy and betrays Miss Brodie]].
128	* FullNameBasis: Mary [=McGregor=] is usually referred to by her full name, especially by Jean Brodie. {{Lampshaded}} by Sandy when she tells Miss Brodie that this was probably because she had trouble remembering who Mary was.
129	* GirlishPigtails: Sweet and naïve Mary has her hair always in pigtails.
130	* TheGhost:
131	** Mary's delinquent brother who never appears on-screen. He provides motivation for [[spoiler: Mary to run off to Spain and eventually get killed]].
132	** Teddy Lloyd's wife Deirdre. She appears in the book, where Sandy has tea at her house, but is offscreen in the film.
133	* TheGlassesGottaGo: Sandy removes her glasses while she's romancing Teddy.
134	* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: It's no coincidence that Miss Brodie is often seen in purple.
135	* GreenEyedMonster: Jean actually when she discovers that Mr Lowther might be romancing Miss Lockhart.
136	* HavingAGayOldTime : An in-universe example. The Brodie girls (except for naive Mary) break down laughing at the words "the curse" in the Tennyson poem "The Lady of Shallot." Possibly inverted with modern viewers who may not know "the curse" is a dated euphemism for menstruation.
137	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: An almost literal example. Sandy runs to Jean's house with news of Mary's death and bangs frantically on the door. Jean, who had been in the shower, does not hear her and Sandy is gone by the time she comes to the door. This serves as the final time Sandy goes to Jean for help, and she betrays her shortly afterwards.]]
138	* HeroicBSOD: This happens to Miss Brodie. Reality and circumstance begin to break down Jean's carefully-constructed and tightly-held romantic delusions, causing her to come to a psychological breaking point and dissolve into tears in front of her class - ''Jenny, who is Dante Gabriel Rossetti? Who is Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jenny!? ...Clara.''
139	* HighSchoolDance: Featuring a gramophone, crepe streamers, a punch bowl, dozens of senior girls in white dresses, beige stockings and black heels, but no males except for a handful of male teachers.
140	* HufflepuffHouse: With the Brodie Set down to four girls, Sandy has her place as Jean's most trusted girl, Jenny is the one to be painted by Teddy, Mary is TheWoobie [[spoiler: who gets killed]] and Monica has no role whatsoever. Possibly for this reason, Jean first assumes that Monica is the one who betrayed her.
141	* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: There's an element of this to Sandy in the film. She seems to get annoyed when Miss Brodie talks of Jenny as the pretty one, and praises Sandy's intelligence; this is followed by a scene of Sandy looking at herself in the mirror, [[TheGlassesGottaGo taking off her glasses]] and acting as though her intelligence is a backhanded compliment.
142	* IntimateOpenShirt: Teddy Lloyd wears his shirt like this in his studio where he paints Jean, and later has an affair with Sandy.
143	* JailBaitWait: An inversion is discussed. Sandy asks Teddy how long he's going to be tempted by this "firm young flesh" (she's seventeen at this point). He responds "until you're eighteen and over the hill".
144	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Jean Brodie arguably. She tends to romanticize everything and ignore reality; she thinks that one of her students having an affair with a teacher twice her age is something to dream of, [[spoiler: and when another student dies she romanticizes her as a hero]].
145	* LighterAndSofter: The character Jean Brodie is somewhat toned down compared to how she was in the novel. In the book she continually bullies Mary and is a fan of Hitler as as well as Mussolini.
146	* LonelyRichKid: The wealthy orphan Mary [=McGregor=]. The other girls are in shock when they hear how much money she gets from the bank.
147	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The ending shot shows Sandy walking down the street, tears slowly falling down her face. It implies [[spoiler: she knows that betraying Jean was a NecessaryEvil, but she still feels guilt over it]].
148	* PragmaticAdaptation: The constant time-skipping in the book could make for awkward pacing in a film, so the story unfolds in a linear fashion -- also combining several of the Brodie set into just four girls. It also adds a more dramatic climax.
149	* QuestionableConsent: Pretty much every encounter Teddy has with either Jean or Sandy. There's some DeliberateValuesDissonance here, considering it is the 1930s.
150	* ReplacementGoldFish: A whole bowl of them.
151	** Teddy Lloyd is a stand-in for Miss Brodie's first love, Hugh, who died during the Great War (although it's possible he is only a figment of her romantic imagination). Despite a genuine attraction to Teddy, however, Jean refuses to get involved with him and uses Mr. Lowther as a substitute. The Hugh character certainly seems more like a fiction in the film, with every description of him reflecting Lowther and Lloyd, since Brodie seems quite youthful (Smith being 35) to have really been having a long full blown affair with someone in 1917.
152	** Miss Brodie appoints her favorite girl Jenny (red-haired like herself) to be her proxy as far as Teddy Lloyd is concerned (bluntly {{lampshaded}} when he accuses her of trying to put Jenny in his bed in her place). When Jenny is no longer in her class, she chooses Clara, also red-haired, to replace Jenny, and even confuses the two of them when she has an emotional breakdown in class. Clara notably starts to wear her hair like Jenny as the film goes on.
153	** Mr. Lowther when he tires of being strung along by Miss Brodie transfers his interested to Miss Lockhart, the chemistry teacher.
154	** Teddy Lloyd uses Sandy as a substitute model and lover for Miss Brodie, much to her hurt and anger when she catches on. It is hinted in the school dance scene that Monica may be Teddy's next substitute for Miss Brodie.
155	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sandy dishes them out both to Teddy Lloyd and [[spoiler: Jean Brodie after she's betrayed her]].
156	* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Mary runs off to fight in the Spanish Civil War, in the hopes of impressing Miss Brodie. Not only does she die when her train is bombed before she even gets there, it turns out she was headed for the wrong army; she assumed her brother was fighting for Franco and went there, when he was actually fighting for the Republic]].
157	* SkewedPriorities: Sandy calls Jean out on this towards the end, where she worries about things in this order - a) someone has betrayed her, b) who will be her proxy in Teddy's love affair, and c) [[spoiler: Mary's death]].
158	--> "Are you aware of the order of importance in which you place your anxieties?"
159	* SparedByTheAdaptation: Jean Brodie's death is not covered in the film. This is due to the film ending with Sandy finishing school, and Miss Brodie does not die until the 1940s.
160	* TallDarkAndSnarky: Teddy Lloyd is this to Jean's WideEyedIdealist. Later, ''Sandy'' becomes this to ''Teddy Lloyd''; true of the book in a lesser extent.
161	* TearsOfRemorse: Sandy's silent weeping at the end could be construed as this.
162	* ThinkOfTheChildren: Sandy tells Miss Brodie that she is "not good for children." To some extent she is sincere here--shortly before she spoke to Miss Mackay she made note of how Miss Brodie had another impressionable young girl, Clara, under her sway. But Sandy is also resentful of Miss Brodie's favoritism towards Jenny and Teddy Lloyd's love for Miss Brodie.
163	* TurnCoat: [[spoiler: Sandy betrays Jean after Mary has gotten killed and she's seen Teddy for who he really is]].
164	* TheVoiceless: Miss Gaunt, the mousy but rather sinister secretary of Miss Mackay who enlists her in her effort to bring down Miss Brodie.

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