An Inspector Calls Characters - Shiela Flashcards
(8 cards)
Give 7 quotes to demonstrate Sheila’s character at the beginning of the play
“A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited”
(quiet and serious now) “All right then. I drink to you Gerald”
“now I really feel engaged”
(gaily)”What’s this about the streets?”
“Oh - how horrible! Was it an accident?”
“It’s just that I can’t help thinking about this poor girl destroying herself so horribly - and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh, I wish you hadn’t told me”
“Pretty?”
Give 2 quotes that show Sheila’s immaturity in the middle of the play
“If she’d been some miserable plain creature, I don’t suppose I’d have done it”
“Why had this to happen?”
Give 2 quotes that show her compassion for Eva
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people!”
(distressed) “Don’t please - I know, I know - and I can’t stop thinking about it”
Give 1 quote that shows she understands the Inspector better than the others
“Why - you fool - he knows.”
Give 4 quotes that show how Sheila takes responsibility for her actions
“It was my own fault”
“If I could help her now, I would”
“It’s the only time I’ve ever done anything like that and I’ll never, never do it again to anybody”
“I know I’m to blame - and I’m desperately sorry”
Give 1 quote to show how she stands up to her mother
“Mother, I think it was vile and cruel”
Give 1 quote to show her maturity by the end of the play
“You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here”
Give 7 quotes that show Sheila learnt from the inspector
“I had her turned out of a job. I started it”
“The point is, you don’t seem to have learnt anything”
“It doesn’t matter much now, of course - but was he really a police inspector?”
“You’re just beginning to pretend all over again”
“Everything we said had happened really had happened”
(tensely) “I want to get out of this. It frightens me the way you talk”
(passionately) You’re pretending everything’s just as it was before”
