An Inspector Calls: Thoughts of Sheila and Arthur Burling I am so glad that I have time to think now. I cannot get over all that has happened tonight. First the inspector arriving and telling us about the death of "Eva Smith" and finding out that all the people I cared about played their own part in the death, no matter how small their part was the outcome of it was greater then what they had expected, this all too much for me! Gerald, the man that I care for, the man that I love, to find out that he was having an affair with Eva Smith devastates me. It is not that he was having an affair with her, but it's that he lied to me and he was telling me "I was awfully busy at the works all that time". I cannot believe that I fell for all of that, he was telling me. If Gerald and I are ever going to get married, our relationship has to base on trust. ====================================================================== One of the biggest things is that I can never do is exonerate my mother, the way that she acted throughout the whole night, she tried to act like that she was perfect and she was not intimidated by the Inspectors arrival. It first started to infuriate me when we were all sitting at the dinner table and she said "when your married you'll realize that men with important work to do have to spend nearly all their energy and time on the business". This infuriated me because in her view, she saw marriage as something to show off to the society and that it does not matter about love. The final thing that almost put me against my mother was when I found out that Eva Smith came to my mother seeking for help and care also to find out that my mother turned her away, I was dismayed with her, when she told the inspector " We've done a great deal of useful work in helping in deserved cases".
the end of the Second World War. The play is set in 1912, just before
satisfied. He talks a lot and likes the sound of his own voice. He's a
into a little house just big enough to stand in. It gives you a great
in jeopardy than how he may have driven a young girl down a spiral to
upon so many levels. On the surface it is a simple tale of how one man
Birlings, as they find out that they have all played a part in a young
the suicide of Eva Smiths death. The aim of the story is to, try to
many times to tell me the truth, but couldn’t as he felt it was the
... Eva Smiths all over the world and that we are all members of one body
... may mean that if a person does not learn from their mistakes the first
but she seems to be a person who would only marry for love and not for
Written in 1947, J.B. Priestley's didactic murder-mystery, An Inspector Calls, accentuates the fraudulent Edwardian era in which the play was set. Britain in 1912 was inordinately different to Britain in 1947, where a country annihilated by war was determined to right the wrongs of a society before them. In 1912 Britain was at the height of Edwardian society, known as the "Golden Age". A quarter of the globe was coloured red, denoting the vast and powerful Empire and all Britons, no matter what class they belonged to were proud to be British - the "best nation in the world".
a date with Jane. He asked you to do an essay for him. I wouldn’t have
to go home ever, and like it would always be like this. I was so
...lorida and that he bought a house. He told me I could stay over when I go down there. I say, “okay” just to be polite. He gave me his number and he asked me for mine. I thought “ I do not want to give you my number, are you crazy?” So I told him I had to go to class, I’ll call him when I go to Florida.