“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 caught sight of this girl smiling at Miss Francis as to say doesn’t she look awful, and I was absolutely furious”
Eva smith then held the dress up to her, Shelia hated this because it fitted her perfectly, she was jealous so she went straight to the manager and said she had been rude and impertinent, this lost Eva her job. This was the second event which led to her death. Eva must have felt quite upset and angry by now as was her second job she had lost.
In March the year before, Gerald met Eva in the stalls bar in the palace in Brumley, he had a drink with her, after saving her from a drunk womaniser in the bar. She had now been calling herself Daisy Renton. She told him her story and he felt sorry for her and found her a flat and gave her some money to help her start again she must of have been feeling pretty bad for him to do that. They ended up falling in love she only told him half the story about the factory this shows she must of had been really embarrassed. Gerald after falling in love had an affair with her but in the end broke it off. This must have had really upsetting for her as she really loved him that would have been the third of events which led to her death.
Then in November she met Eric in a bar, they talked and had a few drinks, they got quite drunk and ended up sleeping together, Eva got pregnant, and wanted to marry Eric, he refused left her and stole money of his father for her to go to an office for help. Eva must have been devastated.
By coincidence she went to Mrs Birling’s office for help, Eva not knowing who called herself Mrs Birling as a disguise the real Mrs Birling found out she was using her name, and got very angry. She said she did not like her manner, so she refused her.
By this point Eva must have had been feeling she couldn’t take any more which lead to her death.
There is a hidden moral in this play, as the inspector said “we are all responsible for each other”