An Inspector Calls by J.B Priestley.

Mr Birlings work. Mr Birling explains his involvement with Eva Smith of how she worked for him and asked for a pay rise and was fired from her job by Mr Birling. After the questioning of Mr Birling the inspector questions Shelia who is shown to an innocent girl, we out find after the questioning that it was Shelia who had Eva Smith fired from her second job because of her jealousy over Eva Smith. After revealing her involvement she starts to blame herself. But the inspector tells her that it wasn't her who made her commit suicide. At the end of act one we find Gerald in a sign of recognition when he hears the name Daisy Renton (Eva Smith's second name when she changed it to find herself a second job). Before the closing of the first act we see Shelia question Gerald where had he known Eva Smith. Gerald explains that he had known her from last summer. We see the irony when Shelia says 'I don't believe I will. (Half playful, half serious, to Gerald.) So you be careful.' She laughs at the fact that the 'important work' Gerald was at last summer was probably knows that Gerald was having an affair. After act one we find the irony of what was said by Gerald 'You seem to be a nice well-behaved family-' and Mr Birlings reply 'Well we think we are'. The exit of Eric shows us that there is more to Eric's involvement than the others which is hidden in Act one until the end because of his drunkenness the inspector leaves him last to be questioned. At the end of act one the audience is left at suspense when Gerald is approached by the inspector we find a great intensity of what the inspector has to say. After Gerald reveals what had happened between him and Eva Smith we find out about their affair. The inspector then questions Mrs Birling the head of the woman's organisation to help woman under poverty. When Eva Smith came to her organisation for help she finds her self being rejected by Mrs Birling because of not telling the truth about her situation. She blames 'I blame the young man who was the father of the child she was going to have.' The irony of what she had said was that the father of Eva Smith's child was her own son Eric. When the inspector questions Eric we find that he was the father who had stolen money to pay for the child from his own father. In the end we find that when the phone rings while the inspector is in another room alone. That the telephone call was from the police station telling them that an incident has happened at the infirmary where a woman by the name of Eva Smith has just swallowed some disinfectant. Then the inspector disappears the family is left thinking of just happened. The inspector wants to show or teach the Birlings about how they affected a person's life just because they where a lower class to them. The two young Birlings learn their lesson but Mr and Mrs Birling don't. Priestley's main concern was were of showing how the upper class people treat the lower class. This message is still relevant today because the upper class people don't think about the lower class people, they don't think what would happen to them if they did something to them.