Sheila Birling Flashcards
“I k I t b - a I d s.”
“I know I’m to blame - and I’m desperately sorry.”
Sheila feels awful about what she has done. One gets the sense that Priestly wants us to side with her and see the world how she ends up seeing it.
“A p g i h e t, v p w l.”
“A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life.”
Initially Sheila is very happy and laid back - living in her own little bubble just like the other characters.
“I i t o y w m t h?”
“Is it the one you wanted me to have?”
Her reaction to getting her engagement ring reveals her to be simple an submissive - just as woman in the 1910s were expected to be.
“O h h! W i a a?”
“Oh how horrible! Was it an accident?”
Sheila is the only one to react to the news of Eva Smith’s suicide.
“G a c l - t p.”
“Girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people.”
This is the first sign that Sheila is starting to lean to the left.
“I w a f. I w v r t b o t.”
“I was absolutely furious. I was very rude to the both of them.”
Sheila has a very nasty streak.
“H g u t r - s t w h o.”
“He’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves.”
Sheila is the first to realise what the Inspector’s game is.
“M, I t t w c a v.”
“Mother, I think that was cruel and vile.”
Sheila begins to turn on her superiors in the name of what she believes to be right.
“I f m t w y t.”
“It frightens me the way you talk.”
She is so affected by the Inspector that she cannot understand how Gerald and her parents slip back into their old habits as soon as the Inspector leaves.
“I t y - w t I w i w a b a j.”
“I tell you - whoever that Inspector was it was anything but a joke.”
Sheila understands that no matter who the Inspector was, what they did was wrong.
