My Quotes Act 2

Question 1

Sheila describing herself

Answer 1

“He means that i’m getting hysterical now”

Gerald must have decided that Sheila is a

“selfish vindictive creature”

Question 2

Mrs B re-enter?

Explain

Answer 2

“(Enters smiling)”

This is the opposite of what she is feeling

Question 3

Who is the most impresionanle?

Answer 3

“We often do on the young ones” - Inspector

Question 4

Sheila’s social progression

Answer 4

“Mummy”

“Mother”

Question 5

How Mrs B sees Eva Smith?

Answer 5

“Girl of that class”

Sees Eva Smith as inferior

Although the only thing seperating Sheila and Eva Smith is their class

Question 6

Sheila and her wall

Answer 6

“You musn’t try and build up a kind of wall berween us and that girl. If you do, then the Inspector will just break it down”

Question 7

Mrs B’s responce to accusations if Erik being drunk

Explain

Answer 7

“No, of course not. He’s only a boy”

Maybe Erik isn’t the child Mrs B is as she can!t see the bigger picture

Question 8

Sheila is helping the Inspector

Answer 8

“Bit it’s you - and not the inspector here - who’s doing it” (breaking down her wall)

Question 9

What is the Inspector doing?

Answer 9

“No, he’s giving us rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves”

Question 10

Comparison with Eva Smith?

Answer 10

“Hard eyed dough faced women” - women of the town
“Pretty - soft brown hair” - Eva Smith

Gerald

Question 11

Describing Alderman Meggarty

Answer 11

“Nototious womanizer”

Mr(s) B isn’t know this

Question 12

Running away

Answer 12

“She only escaped with a torn blouse”

Question 13

Explain Meggary’s name?

Answer 13

It has harsh sounds in it

Question 14

What did Eva Smith want?

Answer 14

“A little friendliness”

“I was sorry for her”

Gerald

Question 15

Where is Sheila?

Answer 15

“Your daughter isn’t living in the moon. She’s here in Brumley too” - Inspector

Question 16

What did Eva Smith keep?

Explain

Answer 16

“She kept a rough sort of diary”

Her life can be summed up on paper but only “sort of”

Question 17

Breaking up the engagment

Answer 17

“[she hands him [Gerald] the ring]”

Question 18

Mrs B lies

Answer 18

“No. Why should I” recognise the girl in the photo

Question 19

Is Mrs Burling to blame?

Answer 19

“Prejudiced me against her case”

“Yes it was” that influenced her

Question 20

Why did she Eva Smith lie?

Expalin?

Answer 20

“She had to admit, after I began questoning her, that she had no claim to the name, that she wasn’t married and that the story that she had told at first - about a husband who’s deserted her - was quite false”

In America 1940’s black men were regulay beaten up untill they confessed to crimes they didn’t admit

Question 21

What did Mrs B do?

Answer 21

“I did my duty”

Question 22

Who does Mrs B blame?

Second

Answer 22

“Go and look for the farther of the child, it’s his responsibility”

Question 23

Mrs B turning in the family?

Explain

Answer 23

“It wasn’t I who turned her out of her employment”

Captalism is “[]sinkable”

Question 24

Mrs B thinks that lower class girls can’t feel emotions

Explain

Answer 24

“Elaborate fine feelings [] that were simply absurd in a girl in her position”

Question 25

Mrs B’s views on lower class girls?

Explain

Answer 25

“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!”

Because it was “stolen money” (said by the Inspector”

Question 26

Who is to blame for Eva Smith’s death in Mrs B’s opinion?

Answer 26

“I accpet no blame for it at all”

“Forst the girl herself” “the farther”

Question 27

What is the farthers role?

Mrs B’s responce

Inspectors responce

Explain

Answer 27

“He is the chief culprit anyhow”. Inspector

“Certianly, and he ought to be dealt with very severly” - Mrs B

“Make an example of the young man, eh”

“eh” could show his anger

Question 28

Sheila showing how ahe isn’t really lart of the upper middle class?

Explain

Answer 28

“I begged you and begged you to stop”

She shoudln’t be begging because of her upper middle class