Sheila Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
excited (stage direction)
A
“very pleased with life and rather excited”
2
Q
use of slang words
A
“squiffy”
3
Q
looks to mum for approval
A
“look mummy - isn’t it a beauty?”
4
Q
proving she has grown up
A
“I am not a child” (says to her dad)
inspector says “isn’t living on the moon”
5
Q
moral judge
A
“probably between us we killed her”
6
Q
engagement with Gerald
A
“you and I aren’t the same people who sat down”
7
Q
moral
A
“these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people”
8
Q
concerned with beauty
A
“Pretty?” one of the first things she learns asks about Eva
9
Q
selfish
A
“you used the power you had…to punish the girl” the inspectors says about Sheila
10
Q
description
A
“Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with her life, and rather excited”
11
Q
figures the story out
A
“stop mummy… can’t you see”
