a school like this one, will not be tolerated by the parents. She is easily gotten rid of, and suspects that it was Mary who betrayed her, even though it was Sandy. In the novel, Miss Brodie dies of cancer in 1946. The play and film show marked departures from the novel. Being adapted for stage and screen by Jay Presson Allen, the story is told in a largely linear fashion. It begins in 1932, after Miss Brodie has returned from her summer holidays in Italy, having realized her prime is upon her. The essentials of the character and the story are the same though some characters are different and/or meet different ends. Mary MacGregor, for example, does not die in a hotel fire that happens years after graduation, rather she is killed while in her final year at Marcia Blaine, when she goes to join her brother who is fighting in the Spanish Civil War. She dies when the training she is traveling on is blown up. In the play, we see a few scenes showing Sandy in later life as a nun. In the film, we do not know what becomes of Sandy or any of the other girls after graduation. Whereas in the book, Miss Brodie is betrayed by Sandy after she and the girls have all left school, the play and film put the betrayal before graduation and before the end of the school year. Sandy's betrayal is done in response to the death of Mary MacGregor. Calvinism Most literary critics agree that Miss Brodie was written as a representation of "the God of John Calvin", and there are indeed many similarities between her and the Calvinist portrayal of God. In the story, she selects a handful of girls from her class to become "her girls." The girls are not chosen for any particular reason, but simply because they are "her favorites." This is strikingly similar to the Calvinist teaching of Unconditional election (Elects) which teaches God chooses His Elect to go to Heaven, based on His own will rather than any reflection of the person's character. Indeed, Miss Brodie attempts to transform these girls into the crème de la crème, again similar to the Calvinist teaching that the Elect will mold into God's image. The most striking similarity, however, is the way Miss Brodie attempts to predestine the lives of her girls and those around