The novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie revolves around the schoolteacher Miss Jean Brodie of Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Scotland.
Miss Jean Brodie picked up six girls from the junior class to make them the best of the best. The girls were also called The Brodie Set. The novel shows the influence on the life of these six girls named Monica Douglas, Sandy Stranger, Rose Stanley, Jenny Gray, Eunice Gardiner, and Mary Macgregor.
Miss Brodie takes the six girls under her control and manipulates their worldly views in the name of education that has almost nothing to do with academics. One of the six girls betrays their teacher in the end, though we are not told which one of the six.
The novel revolves around how Miss Brodie's influence over the girls shapes their future as well as hers since she keeps influencing them till their teens. By the end of the novel, we see that Miss Brodie, on her death bed, thinks that she was betrayed by her most trusted student. The novel ends with Sandy, who has now become a nun, recalling, "There was Miss Jean Brodie in her prime."
