Why Does Priestley Feel Responsible For Eva's Suicide

Steinbeck and Priestley present the underprivileged as victims of a Social Darwinist community by displaying them as individuals that have been more sinned against than sinning through the situations and issues that they have encountered. J. B. Priestley was born in Yorkshire in 1984. Earlier inhis life, Priestley knew that he wanted to become a writer but decided he did not want to go to university as hbelieved he would have a better understanding of the world away from academia. So he became a junior clerk at the age of 16. When the first worldwar broke out, Priestley joined the infantry and almost died on numerous occasions. When war ended, he obtained adegree from Cambridge University, then moved to London to begin his career as

Sheila is horrified at the news of Eva's suicide and begins to ask questions about Eva like her age and if she was pretty or not, even before discovering that she was involved in the suicide she feels compassionate. Priestly wanted to present Sheila and Eric as the new generation of people who are aware and who care more about social responsibility rather than just themselves. Sheila's remorse is clearly evident when her involvement in the suicide is revealed showing that she does in fact feel responsible for Eva's death, in sight of this, through the play we watch Sheila grow and become a more mature individual as oppose to the self-centered child she was at the beginning. When the inspector is finished questioning Sheila, he moves onto Gerald. Gerald croft is an aristocrat who leads a playboy lifestyle. Although his attempt to deny his involvement to protect his interests, when the inspector mentions she changed her name to 'Daisy Renton' he automatically gives away the fact that he knew her and his involvement due to his "startled" reaction. Although he is roughly the same age as Sheila and Eric, Priestley presents Gerald in the same manner which he portrays Mr. and Mrs. and Birling. He illustrates Gerald as a shrewd, intelligent liar because when the inspector begins to ask him questions he tries to convince Sheila to leave so that she would not here the "unpleasant and disturbing" things Gerald had to say about what he did to Daisy Renton, the same way that Mr. Birling tried to keep Sheila out of the matter as if she were a