Sheila Birling

Question 1

What does Sheila represent

Answer 1

Change
A charge to being responsible (social responsibility-charity)

Question 2

How does Sheila come across at the start of the poem

Answer 2

Shallow and childish
“Oh mummy!”
“Squify”

Question 3

Key Sheila quotes

Answer 3

“Oh how horrible! Was she pretty?”
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour- their people”
(Sees them as valuable not just a means to make money)
“It’s the one you wanted me to have”
“It means we’ve no excuses for putting on airs now”
“I think you better take this with you.(she hands him the ring)