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Character Study- Jim Prideaux Jim Prideaux is a supply teacher in the book, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”. Before he was a supply teacher he was a secret agent for a Government organisation. He doesn’t like talking about the past or even remembering it. He was betrayed by one of his close friends in the organisation. This is what led him to leaving the organisation and becoming a supply teacher. At the school lots of pupils think he is a bit of an oddball. I would agree that if you didn’t know him you might be led to believe tat he was a little bit weird, ‘And sometimes in warm evenings from their dormitory windows they would covertly watch him play golf, zigzag across the playing fields’ . He doesn’t talk to people, although he befriends a pupil at the school by the name of Bill Roach. He is very nice towards Bill and he treats him like a close friend. He got to know Bill because they were both quite lonely, ‘you’re a good watcher…Us singles always are’ . Jim seems to know if someone is feeling hurt, like Bill. I think he is so good at telling this because he himself is quite lonely and hurt. Friends aren’t really