My Quotes Act 2 Flashcards
Sheila describing herself
“He means that i’m getting hysterical now”
Gerald must have decided that Sheila is a
“selfish vindictive creature”
Mrs B re-enter?
Explain
“(Enters smiling)”
This is the opposite of what she is feeling
Who is the most impresionanle?
“We often do on the young ones” - Inspector
Sheila’s social progression
“Mummy”
“Mother”
How Mrs B sees Eva Smith?
“Girl of that class”
Sees Eva Smith as inferior
Although the only thing seperating Sheila and Eva Smith is their class
Sheila and her wall
“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”
Mrs B’s responce to accusations if Erik being drunk
Explain
“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
Sheila is helping the Inspector
“Bit it’s you - and not the inspector here - who’s doing it” (breaking down her wall)
What is the Inspector doing?
“No, he’s giving us rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves”
Comparison with Eva Smith?
“Hard eyed dough faced women” - women of the town
“Pretty - soft brown hair” - Eva Smith
Gerald
Describing Alderman Meggarty
“Nototious womanizer”
Mr(s) B isn’t know this
Running away
“She only escaped with a torn blouse”
Explain Meggary’s name?
It has harsh sounds in it
What did Eva Smith want?
“A little friendliness”
“I was sorry for her”
Gerald
Where is Sheila?
“Your daughter isn’t living in the moon. She’s here in Brumley too” - Inspector
What did Eva Smith keep?
Explain
“She kept a rough sort of diary”
Her life can be summed up on paper but only “sort of”
Breaking up the engagment
“[she hands him [Gerald] the ring]”
Mrs B lies
“No. Why should I” recognise the girl in the photo
Is Mrs Burling to blame?
“Prejudiced me against her case”
“Yes it was” that influenced her
Why did she Eva Smith lie?
Expalin?
“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
What did Mrs B do?
“I did my duty”
Who does Mrs B blame?
Second
“Go and look for the farther of the child, it’s his responsibility”
Mrs B turning in the family?
Explain
“It wasn’t I who turned her out of her employment”
Captalism is “[]sinkable”
Mrs B thinks that lower class girls can’t feel emotions
Explain
“Elaborate fine feelings [] that were simply absurd in a girl in her position”
Mrs B’s views on lower class girls?
Explain
“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!”
Because it was “stolen money” (said by the Inspector”
Who is to blame for Eva Smith’s death in Mrs B’s opinion?
“I accpet no blame for it at all”
“Forst the girl herself” “the farther”
What is the farthers role?
Mrs B’s responce
Inspectors responce
Explain
“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
Sheila showing how ahe isn’t really lart of the upper middle class?
Explain
“I begged you and begged you to stop”
She shoudln’t be begging because of her upper middle class
