Who is responsible for the tragedy of Eva Smith?

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Who is responsible for the tragedy of Eva Smith?

I strongly believe that all of the Birling’s and gerald were responsible for the tragedy of Eva Smith, all of their stories make sense and you can clearly see they had a tremendous effect on her life.

Eva Smith believed that she was not getting enough pay from the factory (employed by Mr Birling) so she asked him for a promotion and higher pay as she had been working there for a while now and believed she deserved it. Mr Birling refused and let her go as he said

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 “its my duty to keep labour costs down, and if id agreed to this demand for a new rate we’d have added about twelve percent to our labour costs”

This shows he believed letting her go was the thing to do. This was the first of many things that made her commit suicide.

Eva managed to find another job in a big clothes shop. Shelia went into this shop and tried on an outfit, when looking in the mirror she saw that it did not suit and then she saw Shelia smiling Shelia stated,

 “I ...

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