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Flashcards in Shelia Act 2 Deck (6)
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1
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Key quotes in Act 2 (context)

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Pg 27: Context ‘Then I’m staying.’

Pg 28: Context (To Gerald) ‘So that’s what you think I’m really like.’

2
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Feels shame

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Pg 29: The first to accept responsibility and take some blame ‘I know I’m to blame – and I’m desperately sorry’

3
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Becoming more observant and Understanding

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Pg 29: (to Inspector) ‘There’s something I don’t understand about you’

4
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Understood that They need to tell the whole truth now

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Pg 30: ‘(slowly, carefully now) You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do, then the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse when he does.’
Pg 33: ‘He’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves.’

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They should tell the truth as he knows anyway

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Pg 37: (cutting in, as he hesitates) I know. Somehow he makes you.
Pg 42: ‘You might as well admit to it’

6
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Had enough

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Pg 45: ‘Mother, I think that was cruel and vile’
Pg 48: ‘(with sudden alarm) Mother – stop – stop!’
(to Gerald) ‘I rather respect you more than I’ve ever done before.’