Discuss the role of the inspector in the play.
Comment on the purpose of his visit and the methods of his enquiry. Was his enquiry successful in your opinion?
I am completing an essay on Inspector calls. In this essay I will discuss the Inspector and his methods of enquiry. Set in a Yorkshire household during the early 1900s, Inspector Goole calls at the home of a wealthy industrialist Arthur Birling to investigate the mysterious circumstances behind the death of a young woman named Eva Smith (Jane Wenham). Each one of the family has a secret - and a series of flashbacks reveals each one is partly responsible for driving her to suicide; the father had fired her from his factory, his daughter had got her the sack from a shop, the son had made Eva pregnant, and Sybil Birling had refused her charitable aid. The determined Inspector slowly proves their collective guilt before a final twist in the story.