Sheila Birling Quotes Flashcards
First description
“A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather
excited”
Shows she is still a child
“Yes, go on, Mummy”
Her first opinion on the death
I can’t help thinking about this girl- destroying
herself so horribly- and I’ve been so happy tonight. Oh I wish you
hadn’t told me.”
Helping socialists
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people.”
What she says about Eva Smith
“She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.”
How she contributed to the death
“I went to the manager and told him this girl had been very
impertinent – and – and - ”
Quote showing her regret
“And if I could help her now, I would-”
Quote shows how bad she feels
“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go
there again”
Shows she realises how intelligent the inspector is
“Why- you fool- he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think
how much he knows that we don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see.”
Shows she is almost helping the inspector
“You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If
you do the Inspector will just break it down. And it’ll be all the worse
when he does”
About not helping themselves
“No, he’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves”
Sarcasm showing that they are still in the wrong
Bitterly ”I suppose we’re all nice people now”
Shows the inspectors skill
“He inspected us all right.”
Doesn’t agree with capitalist views
“It frightens me the way you talk”
