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| author = Muriel Spark
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| publication date = 1961
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Published in 1961, ''[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]'' is probably Muriel Spark's best known novel. Set in
The novel has been adapted into a play, a film, and a mini-series. The best-known is probably the film, which starred Maggie Smith. She won an Oscar for her performance as Jean Brodie. The screenplay for the film stays fairly true to the spirit of the novel, but still changes quite a lot. Most noticeably, it prunes a few characters and gets rid of the flashbacks.
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▲=== The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie provides examples of: ===
▲* [[Alone in A Crowd]]: Sandy, right at the end of the film.
* [[Because You Can Cope]]: ''I knew you would rise like a phoenix''
* [[Big No]]: '''''Assassin!'''''
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* [[Romantic Runner-Up]]: 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.
* [[Sarcastic Devotee]]: Sandy becomes this by the end
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Teddy Lloyd is this to Jean's [[Wide
* [[Teacher-Student Romance]]: What Miss Brodie plans for one of her girls and Teddy Lloyd. Fulfilled, but not as planned.
* [[Tears of Remorse]]: Sandy's silent weeping at the end of the film could be construed as this.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Sandy delivers two stinging versions of this in the film, and one in the novel.
* [[Turncoat]]: Miss McKay longs for one of Miss Brodie's girls to fill this role
* [[Treacherous Advisor]]: Since many of Miss Brodie's ambitions for her pupils, especially Rose/Jenny, simply involve using them to vicariously
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