Sheila

Question 1

• She is criticising her father, so she is quite inhumane
• She sympathizes even from the start with the issue faced by working class women
• Anti capitalist message
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Answer 1

‘These girls aren’t cheap labours’

Question 2

• She realises the role she played in Eva’s death after she had
• Illustrate that she takes social responsibility
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Answer 2

‘I started it’

Question 3

• She is utterly disgusted at the behavior of Gerald as well as Mr and Mrs Birling, at the fact that they are celebrating, they are so happy, because the Inspector doesn’t exist, so they can get away with the fact that they ‘killed’ Eva
• Whilst she says that she wants to change her attitudes and her approach to working class people
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Answer 3

‘Nothing to be sorry for, nothing to learn’

Question 4

• Introduces the possibility that Sheila will say/realise that she doesn’t have a better option, that she will not find a better husband than Gerald because they are all like him
• (At least he was honest with her, at least he didn’t force himself in Eva as Eric did, and he is the richest men in town)
• Strong social and patriarchal drive for Sheila to agree to marry Gerald
• We don’t necessarily have great hope at the end of the play, that the younger generation, even if they have learnt the lesson, they are going to be able to act on what they learnt
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Answer 4

‘no, not yet, it’s too soon, I must think’