In the novels The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Girls Of Slender Means the author Muriel Spark uses narrative structure as a means of control over her events. Her technique is manipulated in an expert fashion, and contributes to the depth and meaning of the book. Throughout The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie the author toys with the reader, changing their perceptions of who is truly the main character. At the beginning of …showed first 75 words of 1460 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1460 total…texts not only a control of the novel itself, but also of the reader's imagination. She forces him/her to realise she is in control, that she will move her novels structures however she pleases, and it is in this fashion that she is similar to her manipulative characters, Miss Brodie and Nicholas Farringdon. It is therefore conclusive that the statement 'Spark's fiction is remarkable for the complexity of its narrative structures' is true. (1,460 words)