Eva Smith Flashcards
‘A young woman died in the infirmary. She’d been taken there this afternoon because she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out…suicide’
Q1
‘We’ve several hundred young women there, y’know, and they keep changing’
‘This girl, Eva Smith, was one of them. She’d had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go’
Q2
‘I can’t help thinking about this girl - destroying herself so horribly - I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you hadn’t told me’
Q3
‘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’
Q4
‘A girl died tonight. A pretty, lively sort of girl, who never did anybody any harm. But she died in misery and agony - hating life - ‘
Q5
‘I don’t suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class-‘
Q6
‘quite different. She was very pretty - soft brown hair and big dark eyes - (breaks off.)…she looked fresh and young and charming and altogether out of place’
Q7
‘O she had some fancy reason. As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse Money!’
Q8
‘Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she were an animal, a thing, not a person. No, you won’t forget’
Q9
‘One Eva smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of of Eva Smiths and John smiths…all intertwined with our lives’
Q10
