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Sheila Birling (Sheila seems to be different from the rest of her family…
Sheila Birling
Sheila seems to be different from the rest of her family
Quick-witted and strong-minded
‘I don’t believe I will. So you be careful’
More selfish before
‘you used the power you had ... to punish the girl’
Sensitive and moral now
‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people’
Sharp
‘he’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves’
Sheila’s language makes her seem childish at first
Stage directions
‘very pleased with life and rather excited’
Uses slang expressions
‘squiffy’
Very excited
‘Look - Mummy - isn’t it a beauty?’
Jokes with Gerald
‘half serious, half playful’
‘serious’
Sheila has moral standards
Acknowledges she uses her ‘power’
Uses her as a moral judge
‘probably between us we killed her’
Tells Gerald she respects him for being ‘honest’
‘silly pretences’
The Inspector’s revelations change her for good
Hands back the engagement ring
‘You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here’
Her parents want everything to be normal again
Sheila changes the most
Sheila becomes a bit like the Inspector herself
Takes the Inspector’s side a lot
Asks Gerald as many questions as the Inspector
Reveals Eric’s drinking problem
Contradicts and undermines parents
‘Don’t interfere’
Shocks Eric when she exposes Mrs Birling
Sees the Inspector attack people’s confidence through questions
She’s more mature than the audience first think
Behaves childishly at the start
Wise instincts
Not naive
‘isn’t living on the moon’
‘I’m not a child’