Shelia Birling Flashcards
Desription
“A pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather
excited”
Childish
“Yes, go on, Mummy”
Comment on eva’s death
“(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.”
Working class defence
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people.”
“She was a very pretty girl…that didn’t make it any better.”
Actions in milwards
“I went to the manager and told him this girl had been very
impertinent – and – and - ”
Wants to…
“And if I could help her now, I would-”
Promise to not do something
“I’ll never, never do it again to anybody…I feel now I can never go there again”
Comment on inspector
“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.”
Suicide reference
“No, he’s giving us the rope- so that we’ll hang ourselves”
Comment on family near end
Bitterly ”I suppose we’re all nice people now”
Something the inspector did
“He inspected us all right.”
Talking
“It frightens me the way you talk”
