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An Inspector Calls - Sheila's Metamorphosis - Coggle Diagram
An Inspector Calls - Sheila's Metamorphosis
Sheila represents the upper-class young women who are expected to marry a wealthy and respectable man.
Sheila starts as a pampered and blissful young women who doesn't see the cracks in her life.
She's happy to marry Gerald. He has lots of money and it ascends her status
She's excited with her life
Naïve and childlike
Superficial and materialistic
The ring Gerald chose for her.
There are clues that Sheila has more than meets the eye.
Conforms to the stereo types that have been set out for her in her society.
After the Inspector has left she is morally superior to her parents and is compassionate and sympathetic.
Sheila becomes the Inspector's proxy.
She represents hope
Quotes
No, not yet, it's too soon. I must think.
It frightens me the way you tall.
"But your forgetting one thing, I still can't forget."
Sheila begins to see other ideas from the Inspector.
Quotes
"(miserably) so I'm really responsible"
She accepts her responsibity
"If she had been some miserable plain little creature..."
Still is superficial and dehumanising.
"And I know I'm to blame and I'm desperately sorry."
She is being redeemed and working out her morality
Sheila becomes enlightened by the Inspector's revelations and how she has been and how she should be.