Sheila Quotes

Question 1

Sheila doesn’t know what Gerald was doing last summer

Answer 1

‘Yes - except for all last summer, when you never came near me, and I wondered what had happened to you.’

Question 2

What did Gerlad gift Sheila

Answer 2

‘(Excited) Oh - Gerald - you’ve got it - is it the one [ring] you wanted me to have?’

Question 3

Who does Sheila look at for aproval

Answer 3

“Oh-its wonderful! Look- Mummy- isn’t it a beauty? Oh - darling - [She kisses Gerald hastily]

Question 4

Only Character to show emotion towards suicide of Eva Smith

Answer 4

“Oh - how horrible”

Question 5

Sheila accepts responsibility for her actions.

Answer 5

“I was in a furious temper”
“I behaved badly too. I know I did”

Question 6

Sheila recognises her parents’ faults and irony is used to expose the lack of responsibility and immaturity of the older generations

Answer 6

“It’s you two who are being childish - trying not to face the fact”

Question 7

Stage directions

Answer 7

“Prerty girl in her early twenties”
“Very pleased with life and rather exited”

Question 8

Sheila regrets her cause in Eva Smith’s death

Answer 8

“If I could help her now I would”