Sheila Part 1

Question 1

The first thing we hear about Sheila

Answer 1

A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited

Question 2

Sheila is presented as childish

Answer 2

Yes, go on, Mummy

Question 3

Sheila wishes that she wasn’t exposed to the horrors of the outside world

Answer 3

(rather distressed) 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.

Question 4

Sheila is shown to oppose her farther

Answer 4

But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people.

Question 5

All Sheila sees in a person is the outside and not there possible internal problems

Answer 5

She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.

Question 6

Sheila says what happens when she got Eva Smith fired

This shows that she is sorry

Answer 6

I went to the manager and told him this girl had been very impertinent – and – and -

Question 7

Sheila wishes that she could help Eva Smith now

Answer 7

And if I could help her now, I would-

Question 8

Sheila is shown to be sorry for her role in the suicide

Answer 8

I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go there again

Question 9

Sheila is knologable and knows that the inspector knows everything already

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

Sheila realises that nothing the upper class can do make what they do to the lower class acceptable

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Sheila says that the higher classes only have themselfs to blame for there wrongdoing.

Answer 11

No, he’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves