Sheila's Comment Explaining the Action of the Play

Sheila's Comment Explaining the Action of the Play

"Well he inspected us all righ

Between us we drove that girl

To commit suicide"

This sentence is very important to the story because Sheila realises

that the inspector is not a real inspector but he has inspected them

and they lost against him and it was them, each member of the family

who contributed to Eva Smiths death. We will learn in this essay how

each family member is a contributor to the death of an innocent

person, Eva Smith and also how the inspector inspects the family using

his power not physically but verbally and how he does the inspection.

We learnt about how each person from the Birling's family effects Eva

Smith even a good person like Gerald and a bad person like Mr Birling

so it is necessary to explain how each character acts towards Eva

Smith. Combined with this we learn from the story that an inspector

with the name of Goole comes to inspect them all.

The first person that strikes on Eva Smith is Mr Birling. Mr Birling

is a very rich person. He has a prosperous business but is shown to be

extremely greedy and very ironic. His extreme greediness concludes to

Eva Smith loosing her job, which was the first hit on Eva Smith. Eva

Smith is a very hardworking woman who works for Mr Birling in his

factory. She is getting very fed up due to the low wage he pays and

which she cannot survive on. She and the other ringleaders are

planning on to go on strike after there holidays. Eva Smith after the

holidays goes and asks Mr Birling for an increase to 26 Shillings a

week which he refuses saying, "I could not consider it" and then sacks

her is pretty sad and very evil of him to do that. It also shows me

the time of period where women were protesting for their rights and

independence and women also died for their rights. So first

contributor to Eva Smith's death his Mr Birling because he throws her

out of her job because he did not want to give her the increase. You

will also learn of his bad and evil personality as the essay proceeds.

As I have said before he is very ironic. Before the inspector comes in

to inspect them they are having a party because Mr Birling's daughter

is engaged to Gerald. Here Mr Birling is telling his son Eric and his

future son in law how life is and what is going to happen. His son

Eric is talking about a possible war.