An Inspector Calls

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Gary Coyle                02/05/07

An Inspector Calls

Arthur Birling was a very rich man and only seemed to care about his family and how well his business and financial position was progressing. He didn’t know any of his workers and didn’t want to either, as he quotes ‘ I have a couple of hundred workers under me, who keep changing’ This shows that there was no personal relationship with Arthur or Eva Smith until the strike.

Arthur claims that his workers came back of there holidays very restless and demanded for a pay rise. Of course Arthur denies it, so all the workers hadn’t came back. After a few weeks the workers were getting poor so they had to come back and beg for their jobs. Arthur decided to let them come back because he might not want to admit it but he did need them. Because of all this trouble he decided to sack the ringleaders and Eva Smith appeared to be one of them. Eva Smith was out of work now for a couple of months, and was earning no money. She had no savings and her parents were dead so she couldn’t ask them for help. Eva had only few friends and they were in no financial position to help her. So I don’t think that the events linked between Arthur Birling and Eva Smith are the cause of her death; she is capable of finding another job.

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Sheila Birling, the daughter of Arthur Birling and fiancee of Gerald Croft understands the effect she had on Eva. One day whilst Sheila was at Milwards a very nice shop, Sheila was experimenting with some hats and she new very well that they didn’t suit her much so she asked Miss Francis to show her how they should be worn. Miss Francis asked Eva to put it on and show Sheila how they should be worn. Eva was a very pretty girl and the hat looked beautiful on her so at this point I think that Sheila might have ...

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