The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: (1-23)
I just started reading The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. So far this book has really caught my attention, it’s about these girls that are each unique in their own way. They follow Miss Brodie who teaches them the ways of women.
The six girls that follow Miss Brodie are each different. Some of them include: Jenny for beauty and Sandy for her eyes. Each girl also wears there hat a different way symbolizing different things.
But now, the boys with their bicycles were cheerfully insulting Jenny Gray about her way of speech which she had got from her elocution classes. She was going to be an actress. She was Sandy’s best friend. She wore her hat with the front brim bent sharply downward; she was the prettiest and most graceful girl of the set, and this was her fame. “Don’t be a l out, Andrew,” she said with her uppish tone. There were three Andrews among the five boys, and these three Andrews now started mimicking Jenny: “Don’t be a lout, Andrew,” while the girls laughed beneath their bobbing panamas. (page 13)
I liked this block quote a lot, it talks in detail about Jenny Gray in a way that we can imagine her very easily. It describes in death about the position of her hat and not one of the girls where their hat the same way. It also talks about boys being boys. Which is mimicking girls on what they say and making fun of them.
Sparks, Muiriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. New York: New York. 1961
