Father and mother...they just don’t understand. They will ever change. Would you go to father for help? The point is, the younger generation has the power to change. We can change our generation and the next. The lower class don’t have a say in change, but we all do...all because we’re the ‘rich’ and ‘powerful’. What difference does it really make? Why can’t they have a say in how things are run? They feel powerless. This is why we have to help them...speak out. Only now we understand, it’s just cruel! Why should they feel...alone? Why let them feel helpless? They have nobody. They live alone. Die alone. They can’t even help it! Eva. She was only one, like the Inspector said, ‘What about the millions of other Eva Smiths in the world’; she was only one example.
How many others have been treated like this just because of their class? All those John Smiths. Even Edna, Sheila. We look down upon her like she’s nothing; it doesn’t matter how much she does for us. She doesn’t even complain. Just another individual, out of the millions in the world. They all get treated the same way. Eva was just helpless and we were all against her, whether we meant to be or not. Why did she have to live like this? She didn’t! That’s the answer, the way I see it.
Everyone has their own excuse as to why this happened. Father. He took her job from her just because she asked for higher wages, just a few extra shillings! He doesn’t understand how hard it is to get another job for the likes of them. Mother was just as bad. She only takes up ‘deserving cases’, well that’s another thing we learnt today. We know she refused Eva’s case partly due to Eva using mother’s name, but it was also because of her class. It was our family that did this to her Sheila! It was me too, I have to accept that. I made her pregnant. How foolish was I?
She died with that child. Another life we ruined. The Inspector was right, his socialist views about how things should change. Things will only change if we demolish this cruelty. It’s the likes of our father and mother that are the cranks. The Inspector. He knew...he knew, alright.
