good morning and miss dove be a major and pleasant surprise to me . i expect an over sentimental and although well make and movie . on the contrary and i discover that there be a subtext of sense of humor and and the many psychological subtlety and finesse be even more relevant than sentimentalism . of course and i do not deny that i be deeply touch by this extraordinary and wonderful woman and miss dove . miss dove be the essence of the movie and and even the sense of humor be base on her . her pride and her aloofness and her deep conviction to be always right and her refined and elegant and slightly ironic way of talk that never weaver and not even in dire strait and make miss dive a comic character and in some sense . and we see that she look at her own over the top strictness with a dose of self irony . miss dove mission a a teacher be base on a steel principle represent all her pupil be equal . any partiality be just inconceivable . actually and she can not help to have a particular love for some of them and especially for bill . when and after his service in the marine corp and the grow up bill say to miss dove that he want to use his saved money to complete his study and she plainly hide her inner joy . why . clear represent to show joy and even much time after the school year and would mean to be partial toward her william ( a delightful and even poetic subtlety be that miss dive never call the kid by nick name ) . however and at the hospital she finally afford herself to show a preference . she ask all her flower to be distribute to the other patient and and she just take in her room the flower send by her beloved and favorite son bill . miss dove be a genius of psychology . the equal for all discipline be the canvas where she paint with masterly touch . she never preaches and her own behavior show the right way . when she see that the little jewish maurice be ill use by the other kid and she doesn not utter a ( probably useless ) sermon on xenophobia . she just ask maurice to accompany her and help to bring her book and thus show to everybody how much she care for the little stranger . then it up to the kid to understand the lesson . this episode be relate to a beautiful finesse of the movie . we see mr. levine and maurice father and terribly upset and worry at miss dove illness . thus we get that and less fortunate than his son and mr. levine have long experiment the horror of anti semitism in europe . so he be fully aware of and grateful for miss dove precious job and even more than his son . another great psychological job be the way miss dove and talk with bill and praise billie jean skill and humanity a a nurse . that enough for bill to learn the lesson and that be to overcome his prejudice ( which coincide with her own prejudice while so and after all and even miss dove have something to learn ) . particularly poignant be the shy and humble admiration and love pay by billie jean to her former teacher . that be mirror by the nurse naive attempt to imitate miss dive elegant talk and perfect poise and which give rise both to fun and to emotion . some character be conventional and others be not fully convince and like that of the gangster makepeace . however and this guy be instrumental in show that miss dive never condemn the human be . the film be permeate with positive message represent patriotism and dignity and respect and honor and love for learning and sense of community and gratitude . i will be the very last to be displease by that . sometimes the sentimentalism be far fetched . i consider it a minor fault of the movie . jennifer jones a miss dove be just sensational . the remainder of the cast work very well and especially peggy knudsen a billie jean and in my opinion . let me conclude remark a great poetic image . the little girl and from the top of the tree she have climb ( a wonderful symbol of innocence and freedom ) and star with a stunned look at miss dove carry away by the priest and the doctor . what up . the indestructible teacher have something wrong . impossible . like the people of liberty hill and we all love miss dive and this wonderful woman and this mother of one thousand child . to enjoy this extraordinary character and i strongly recommend good morning and miss dove .