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Miss Ellen and Alison Kerr
A gaunt woman, and the sister of a Calvinist minister, Miss Gaunt substitutes for Miss Brodie at Blaine in the autumn of 1931. Unlike Miss Brodie’s influence on the classroom, Miss Gaunt’s presence in the classroom subtracts, in her students’ minds, from the sexual significance of things. She becomes like a sister to Miss Ellen and Alison Kerr and advises them to make their arrangement with Mr. Lowther permanent, but due to Miss Brodie’s intervention this does not come to pass.
Miss Gaunt Quotes in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Gaunt or refer to Miss Gaunt. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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In fact, it was the religion of Calvin of which Sandy felt deprived, or rather a specified recognition of it. She desired this birthright; something definite to reject. It pervaded the place in proportion as it was unacknowledged. In some ways the most real and rooted people whom Sandy knew were Miss Gaunt and the Kerr sisters who made no evasions about their belief that God had planned for practically everybody before they were born a nasty surprise when they died.
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Miss Gaunt Quotes in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Gaunt or refer to Miss Gaunt. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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In fact, it was the religion of Calvin of which Sandy felt deprived, or rather a specified recognition of it. She desired this birthright; something definite to reject. It pervaded the place in proportion as it was unacknowledged. In some ways the most real and rooted people whom Sandy knew were Miss Gaunt and the Kerr sisters who made no evasions about their belief that God had planned for practically everybody before they were born a nasty surprise when they died.
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