How does Priestly present the change in Sheila? How does this reflect some of Priestly's ideas?

 to her than the people around her that actually are there to befriend her and not to use her like her father is. We see this through her reaction to Gerald when he presents her with the engagement ring "is it the one I wanted." and through the way that she obsesses over the ring taking no interest in what it represents. We also see that Sheila is a girl eager to conform to her parent’s expectations, marrying at a, young age and to the man that Mr Birling hopes will allow his business to prosper.As the play develops Priestley presents Sheila as a much uglier personality than the initial stereotypical upper class girl introduced to us, he does this through Sheila's reaction to the inspector discovering that she was the root cause for her losing her job at millwards, and a link in the chain of events that lead to Eva Smith’s death. "If she'd been some miserable plain little creature, I don't suppose I’d have done it. But she was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself I couldn't be sorry for her." Priestley does this to show how flawed and corrupt the class system, supporting his socialist ideas and opinions. However by doing this Priestley also shows us that behind closed door the privileged personalities and morels are tarnished and are at a point where jealousy has become a justifiable reason to throw a girl out of her job without any regard to where she will go or her current situation.However against the contrast of Sheila making an excuse of jealousy we see the change in her from an immature girl to a woman of independent thought and free from her parents guidance. We see this changed in Sheila through the way that she takes on responsibility for her actions as well as recognizing that she was in the wrong for treating them without any regard to their lives "it was my own fault" and "these girls....they're people". The quotes imply Sheila is willing to admit her responsibility and has changed for better adopting the idea socialism and everyone being responsible for one another. In doing this, Priestley wanted the audience that change is usually for the best, and Sheila is an example of this therefore Priestley hoped that changing their views would help them become better people in life. Towards the end of the play, one can presume that Sheila has adopted the inspector view on life becoming a moral judge just as the inspector was to her. Sheila even says "but you’re forgetting one thing I still can’t forget. Everything we said had happened really happened. If it didn’t end tragically, then that’s lucky for us. But it might have done" as she tries to keep her family from forgetting the whole ordeal they were just in.In summary initially Sheila was presented as a spoilt child capable of narrow minded thought with no regard for the people that surround her on a daily basis and the idea of she would marry a wealthy man and leach of him. Until the inspector arrives and casts light over the disgraceful morals and personalities that have occurred, while promoting a much more mature approach to life through the eyes and ideas of himself in hope that she will change with the times and take on the responsibility of looking after others.Ethan Bond