EVA Smith's DIARY ENTRIES

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EVA Smith’s DIARY ENTRIES

Tuesday, September 19th, 1910.

Im shattered today. It was another hard day at the Works. The weather’s getting worse and the prospect of a pay rise is the only thing keeping me going, at the moment.

However, I’m not that optimistic of achieving it. Birling is an ignorant, obstinate, old fool and is adamant on widening the gap between rich and poor.

Tomorrow's the day he’s going to discuss our offer. It’s a lost cause. I've always fought for what I believe in but know I’m beginning to wonder what the point is.

This job is the only thing I’ve got and I can’t afford to lose it.

People nowadays don’t take kindly to single girls who are unemployed and have no prospects.

Anyway that’s enough for tonight, I better hit the sack.

Wednesday September 20th 1910,

It turned out that Birling didn’t want to negotiate at all! He sacked me! Typical! Just when I thought I was on the verge of a promotion, this happens!

He work’s us like slaves and isn’t even willing to negotiate a compromise. It just isn’t right.

The world would be a much better place without scum like Birling.

He gave us a load of old waffle about how he didn’t want to drive labour costs too high and in his words, “regrettably we are going to have to discharge you.”

The slimy, good for nothing, weasel, he made it sound as if he had no choice.

Well I suppose there’s no point wallowing in the past, what’s done is done and I’m not going to make things better by being bitter about it. I’ve got to stay optimistic and look to the future, even though the future is uncertain.

There’s no benefit system for girls like me, another fault of society.

I suppose I’ll just have to make my own way in life, just as always.

Saturday 4th December 1910,

I’ve some tremendous news! I’ve just been employed at Millwards. It was a complete coincidence and happened totally by chance.

I was going to the shops, with the little money I had remaining, when I decided to take the scenic route and walk down the high street.

Join now!

Millwards is a magnificent store which sells the most exquisite and tasteful ladies garments, and I couldn’t help notice a dress as I walked past the shop window. I decided to go in, and got chatting to a sales assistant about the dress.

She was very pleasant and while in conversation she mentioned that there was a store vacancy. She said I’d be ideal for the job and had very good taste. She offered to put a good word in for me to the manager and just like that I got it!

Well it couldn’t have come at a ...

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There are many strengths to this collection of diary entries. The student has a clear appreciation of the events of the play and the role that the different characters had on the life of Eva Smith. The writing shows empathy and generally sustains an authentic voice throughout. The technical inaccuracies with errors in punctuation, spelling and paragraphing mean that the student would unlikely to get the full extra marks available for spelling, punctuation and grammar (SPaG) which are now awarded on some Literature exam questions.