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angeladawn 's review for:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
This is one of those strange books that I don't know how to rate. I can't say the writing was bad. The story is about one of those people who are not especially extraordinary, but they manage to have undue influence on many people's lives, based upon their sheer audacity and supreme belief in themselves. Perhaps Miss Jean Brodie could be called a classic narcissist. There is the golden child and the one that gets blamed for everything. There are the manipulated in betweeners who can't see the big picture. There are the few who can see her for what she is but have trouble gathering concrete evidence. One of her victims, er protogees, eventually sees the truth, betrays Miss Brodie, and falls from a state of grace, punishing herself with a life long penance.