So, concluding the paragraph, after Mr Birling sacked Eva from the infirmary she couldn’t find another job, at this time she was probley depressed, which lead to her death.
Mr Birling was a working man. He owned an factory and employed over
“Several hundred young women”.
Eva Smith was one of these young women and Mr Birling called her a
“Good worker”.
Mr Birling also said that Eva Smith was rather restless after coming back from her August holiday, just like the rest of the factory girls, and then she and four other girls came up to him and asked for more money.
Mr Birling sacked Eva smith because he thought she was a
“Trouble maker”.
All she did was ask for a pay rise and Mr Birling couldn’t even do that. He said that they were getting the advrage amount for working in a factory. This then left Eva out of work for the next two months, with no income, this probley meant that she had debts as well as trying to by her usual food and drink.
Mr Birling thinks he hasn’t got any part to play in the fact that Eva Smith committed suicide. What he thinks was that it was two years ago that he sacked Eva Smith from the factory, so this couldn’t have been why she drank the disinfectant and that this resulted into suicide. I don’t think Mr Birling realised that this is just one of the chain of events that resulted to her death.
Sheila Birling was Mr Birlings Daughter, she was a pretty girl in her early twenties, and she was very pleased with life and rather excited. Just before then inspector arrives, Sheila is celebrating her engagement to Gerald Croft; she is really excited about it. When Sheila met Eva Smith, Eva was working in Millwards. Millwards is a very posh shop, just like Waitrose today. It was when Sheila had had an idea of her own, she had tried a dress on, but it didn’t suit her,
“It was the wrong type”,
When the assistant held the dress up against her, it suited her,
“She was the right type”.
Then when Sheila tried it on, she could see this girl smiling, trying to say,
“Doesn’t she look awful”
This is when Sheila gets really angry, and complained that the assistant either gets sacked from her job or her and her mum will cancel their membership card, and never shop there again.
This is how Sheila got Eva Smith sacked from her job at Millwards.
Sheila dose feel responsible for the death of Eva smith because she caused millwards to sack her, but I think Sheila also knows that a chain of events did lead to the death of this young pretty girl. She also thinks that the rest of her family has to take some of the blame too, not just her.
Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy with very much the east well-bread young man about town. Gerald met Eva,
“Last summer, during the time when he hardly spoke to Sheila”.
When she was low, when she was in her prime time- all down low, just been sacked from millwards this is when Gerald had helped me up. Gerald also helped her out by giving her a room for as long as she wants and Gerald also had an affair with her, when he was meant to be getting married to Sheila. Gerald broke the end of their relationship because he realised that he was meant be marrying Sheila soon, and that he didn’t want her to find out. Gerald Croft doesn’t take any blame for the death of Daisy Renton because he believes that he helped her out, and kind of made her life a bit more pleasurable. He also probley feels really sad that Daisy / Eva has committed suicide because Gerald was really close to her.
Mrs Birling was a woman who was about fifty, she was socially acceptable but was a rather cold woman. She worked in the Brumley woman’s charity; this is how Mrs Birling met Eva smith. Well at the time Mrs birling was in the chair, and she said to the inspector,
“We’ve done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases,”
Here she is saying that she judges whether the case the organisation is beginning to take on, she judges them. This is wrong, for a start, all the cases that come to the charity should be at least offered some advice, not just be sent away. Mrs birling didn’t meet the girl as Eva Smith or daisy Renton, she met her as Mrs Birling, this is what:
“Prejudiced against her case?”
All Mrs Birling did was refused to help her, just because they both had the same name.
Mrs Birling also says:
“I didn’t like her manner, she’d impertinently made use of our name, though she pretended afterwards it just happened to be the first she thought of.”
Here Mrs Birling is clearly judging this young girl from her manners and her name, even if she did make it up. The sad thing is though is that Mrs Birling doesn’t think she has done anything wrong, she thinks she has nothing to do with it because she is head of the charity, she doesn’t realise that the death of Eva smith is all to do with a chain of events.
Eric is Mr and Mrs Birling’s son. He is also in his early twenties, and not really at ease with things. Eric met Eva Smith, or to him Daisy Renton one night last November, in the palace bar, he says
“I’d been down there and hour or so with two or three chaps.”
Here he is saying that he met Daisy down the palace Bar.
Eric also says,
“she told me afterwards that she was a bit, chiefly because she’d not had much to eat that day.”
I think that Eric feels sorry for Daisy, and thinks that he has to help her out. Eric gave her money from the office, which he stole, but she refused to take it. Eric also gave Daisy a house to live in, but he also slept with her. Eric tried to show some responsibility for what he did by owning up to it straight away and also by saying that he helped Daisy, in all ways after Mrs Birling refused to help her out. Eric feels really devastated by Eva’s death and it feels to him that he has lost a member of his family, or maybe two. He feels more of the feelings than the rest of the family, and doesn’t really know what to think apart from that he helped Eva out.
I think that Mrs Birling is the most to blame for the death of Eva smith, this is because, I think Mr birling made a choice to kick her out of the workplace, which was completely his decision, and Sheila didn’t really release what she was doing, Eva was a new worker at the shop. Gerald and Eric kind of helped Eva/Daisy out. So Mrs Birling it the one to blame. When Eva came to Mrs Birling, She judged Eva by her manners and that her name was the same as Mrs Birlings, this was really unfair of her and I think that Mrs Birling should of helped her, for a start given her some advice. She done nothing just refused to help her. This charity was made to help people, not just turn them down when they don’t like the look of someone.
