Who's to blame for Eva smith death in inspector calls?

Who’s to blame for Eva smith death in inspector calls?

Mr Berling is the first person the Inspector confronts with the

responsibility of the young women^s death. Mr Berling is the type of

character that thinks that Titanic is unsinkable and that there will

never be a war which is a dramatic irony. Eva had been employed at Mr

Berlings factory but had been sacked for leading a strike to get the

workers more pay. At first Mr Berling will not accept responsibility

which is shown when he says "Still, I can't accept any responsibility.

If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody

we'd had anything to do with, it would be very awkward." Mr Burling

shows in this way, that he has a lot of power to say if the workers

have a steady income or not and does not care about the consequences.

The Inspector thinks that Mr Berling is partly to blame for Eva being

so depressed that she killed herself. ^She was out of work for the

next two months. Both her parents were dead, so that she^d no home to

go back to. And she hadn^t been able to save much out of what Berling

and Company had paid her. So that after two months, with no work, no

money coming in, and living in lodgings, with no relatives to help her,

few friends, lonely, half-starved, she was feeling desperate.^

The second person questioned by the Inspector was Sheila who is the

only one who does accept some of the blame. Sheila is a young woman who

tends to over-react to things. Sheila is engaged to Gerald. When she

thought that a dress looked better on Eva than it did on her she became

very angry. This was clearly shown when she says "When I was looking

at myself in the mirror I caught sight of her smiling at the assistant,

and I was furious with her. I'd been in a bad temper anyhow." Sheila

shows she has a ...