Sheila Birling

Question 1

her development

Answer 1

Act 1 - mummy to Act 3 - mother

disagreeing with parents - ‘it frightens me the way you talk’ / ‘- (cutting in)’

Question 2

her naivety

3

Answer 2

‘is it the one you wanted me to have?’
‘Oh - how horrible! Was it an accident!’
‘Oh I wish you hadn’t told me’

Question 3

her socialist view - act 1

Answer 3

‘these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people’

Question 4

the change in her taking responsibility

Answer 4

Act 1 - ‘you talk as if we were responsible’

Act 3 - ‘between us we drove that girl to commit suicide’

Question 5

Act 3 - realises they need to accept their actions and make a change
(2)

Answer 5

‘so nothing really happened…nothing to be sorry for, nothing to learn’
‘(bitterly) I suppose we’re all nice people now’

Question 6

End of Act 1 - she begins to understand the inspector

Answer 6

‘we haven’t much time…(she looks at him almost in triumph’

Question 7

Act 1 - capitalist view = taught by her parents

Answer 7

‘if sh’ed been some miserable, plain little creature I don’t suppose I’d done it’