Miss Brodie ruins the schools curriculum as she puts foward her own passions: both personal and academic. She teaches the girls what she believes is important and in order of importance. She shares with her girls her status in the school and trouble she has with the headmistress. Miss Brodie is memorable for these students and the work she did with them, they remember her throughout their lives which their repeated flash-forwards reveal. These girls, along with one other, form “the Brodie set.” This Brodie set is who Miss Brodie considers the "creme de la creme."
The girls all have different traits; Miss Brodie uses that to try and plot her plan to stay within the school no matter what any adminstrator has to say. The girls soon start to realize that the group constitutes the body of which Miss Brodie is the head; which is to say Miss Brodie is the master mind behind everything.
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"There is a long story attached to Miss Brodie's retirement. She was betrayed by one of her own girls; we were called the Brodie set."
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This is an example of dual narrative voice which is used a lot in this novella. Sandy is using dual narrative voice because this is her reflecting upon Miss Brodie in her prime; this is known because Sandy says before she wished to visit her grave, if she could ever find it. Also, it used foreshadowing. It used foreshadowing because we now know that Miss Brodie gets betrayed and that she ends up retiring although her struggle to maintain within the school system. However, we don't know how they finally get her to retire. We also don't know who betrayed Miss Brodie and how; we are simply left to wonder and to keep reading.
