An Inspector Calls

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family and fiancé. She was very happy but after the Inspector has arrived, she was very upset and feeling very guilty over Eva Smith. Sheila was mad with her father after listening to the conversation between Arthur and the Inspector. “But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people...” Sheila was so mad with her father for being selfish and cruel to a girl. She didn’t know why he had to do that, but when the Inspector said that he wasn’t the only person who actually was being cruel and selfish. “...She was lucky to get take on at Milwards.” When she knew Eva Smith as taken to another place for work. “...After about couple of months, just when she felt she was settling down nicely, they told her she had to go...” “There was nothing wrong with the way she was doing her work. They admitted that. All she knew was- that a customer complained about her- and she had to go.” Sheila gave out a little cry, gives half-stifled sob, and then runs out when the inspector showed who Eva Smith was. Her father told her there's nothing to worry about when he went after her, but Sheila knew this wasn’t his fault so he could say that. And it doesn’t make any change to herself being like that. She was found guilty because when Eva Smith settled down in the Milwards, when Sheila went there she wanted to try the dress on, and she saw the assistant told this girl to show her it by holding it up in front of her. Sheila was jealous of her prettiness “...She was a very pretty girl- with big dark eyes- that didn’t make it any better.” So Sheila tried it on. “...I’ve tried the thing on and looked at myself and knew that it was wrong, I caught sight of this girl smiling... as if to say 'doesn't she look awful’ I went absolutely furious. I was very rude to both of them.” Sheila was really mad but she knew this was wrong for being jealous and would actually hurt someone badly. “...but it didn’t seem to be anything very terrible at the time. Don't you understand? And if I could help her now, I would...” But the Inspector then told her “yes, but you can’t now. It’s too late. She’s dead.”

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        Gerald Croft, an attractive chap about thirty, rather  too manly to be dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town. “...Hear hear. And I think my father would agree to that” Gerald is looking forward to get married with Sheila, he knows that when they are married both families would be working together in business. His attitude to the future are almost the same as Arthur Birling, nice and perfect live. Gerald's ‘easy manner’ was simply disrupted by the Inspector as he asked whether he knew Eva Smith after Sheila had made her lost her job. At the moment ...

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