SHELIA

Question 1

What is she like?

Answer 1

“a pretty girl… very pleased with life and rather excited.”

Question 2

How does she speak?

Answer 2

Sheila speaks with “mock aggressiveness” and is “half serious, half playful”

Question 3

Mrs Birling

Answer 3

MRS B: “When you’re married you’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business. You’ll have to get used to that”
SHEILA: “I don’t believe I will!”

Question 4

Cheap Labour

Answer 4

“But these girls aren’t cheap labour – they’re people.”

Question 5

Responsible

Answer 5

“So I’m really responsible?” “At least I’m trying to tell the truth.”

Question 6

Eric drink

Answer 6

“But we really must stop these silly pretences. This isn’t the time to pretend that Eric isn’t used to drink.”

MRS B: (staggered) “It isn’t true.”

Question 7

The ring

Answer 7

(She hands him the ring.)

SHELIA: “You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here.”

Question 8

No excuse

Answer 8

“It means that we’ve no excuse now for putting on airs and that if we’ve any sense we won’t try.”

Question 9

Beginning

Answer 9

“But now you’re beginning all over again to pretend that nothing much has happened –“ “The point is, you don’t seem to have learnt anything.” “…it’s you two who are being childish – trying not to face the facts.”

Question 10

Forgetting

Answer 10

“But you’re forgetting one thing I still can’t forget. Everything we said had happened really had happened.”

Question 11

Learn

Answer 11

“You began to learn something. And now you’ve stopped.”