Sheila Birling Quotes Flashcards
Start Stage Directions
‘pretty girl in her early twenties’
‘pleased with life and rather excited’
A1 - mock
‘(mock aggressiveness)’
A1 - summer
(half serious, half playful) ‘Yes, except for all last summer, when you never came near me’
Gerald has not been around with Sheila – suggests a lack of knowledge in the relationship
A1 - beauty
‘Mummy, isn’t it a beauty’ ‘Mummy’ – immature
A1 - people
‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people’
A1 - responsible
‘So I’m really responsible?’
A1 - never
‘I’ll never, never do it again to anybody’ Taking responsibility
A1 - knows
(laughs rather hysterically) Why you fool – he knows. Of course he knows.
Sheila catching up with the inspector and his thoughts
A2 - cutting
(cutting in) Taking similar stage directions as the Inspector
A2 - build
‘You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl’
A2 - child
‘I’m not a child, don’t forget’
A2 - respect
‘I rather respect you more than I have ever done before’
A3 - childish
‘you two who are trying to be childish – trying not to face the facts’
A3 - pretending
(passionately) ‘You’re pretending everything’s just as it was before’
