Mr Birling is shown to be an arrogant and confident character. With his first line in the extract given he shows a very careless and selfish attitude with the statement 'I discharged her'. Birling gives a cold attitude towards Eva Smith's life and shows that he doesn't care for her, giving himself a more noticeable selfish attitude. Birling decides to not use her name and constantly regards her as 'girl' and the fact he has to think about her time at his business shows that she wasn't important enough to him, and shows that he thinks workers and people below him don't deserve to be called by their names. Birling tries to intimidate Inspector Goole by boasting about his status and the type of people he knows, for example when Birling mentions the engagement between Sheila and Gerald Croft - a name made famous by 'Croft's limited', Birling brings this up to intimate the Inspector as Birling expects his status to buy him away from trouble and put him above the law.
George has to put up with Lennie and then kill his best friend, Curley’s wife faces discrimination and even her kindness towards Lennie leads to her death. It is Lennie’s lack of understanding of the pain he is causing that loses our pity towards him and it is the weight
Brooks shows us that the plague causes many to suffer not only physically however mentally and emotionally as well. Before Anna could “mourn the (people) that (she) loved, another (person) was ill in her arms”. This caused Anna to come to a point in her life where she could either sink or swim and Anna decided to sink. Anna decided to be cruel to herself and turned to poppies, even though it did relieve her pain then, she suffered much more later. Not only did people suffer from the plague and what it brings, however people suffered from their own personal upbringing.
The audience may not understand this, but they realise that Shelia must have had something to do with Eva’s death. Sheila, unlike her father feels remorseful for her acts and her realisation at setting in chain a series of events that may have lead to the suicide of the young girl. She shows she is able to learn from the Inspector’s
Many problems start happening after Antigone dies because everyone though that it was tragic to lose her. Everyone though it was tragic because they thought she was innocent, that she just wanted to burry her brother.
What conveys the behavior as acceptable most to Bone is the way her mother learns about the abuse and refuses to leave Glen. Bone convinces herself she is “trash” and that it’s her fault and she deserves it. Glen would sometimes justify his beatings as discipline. Bone was filled with self-hate. There were times where Bone recalls “afterward, Mama would cry and wash my face and tell me not to be so stubborn, not to make him so mad” (Allison 110) which places the blame completely on Bone.
Crooks often talks about his loneliness and how that the more lonely people get the more “mean” and “sick” they become. This relates closely to Curley’s wife because her character is seen as very malicious and sometimes angry. But once she is dead, the “meanness and the plannings and discontent…were all gone
Even though a girl has committed suicide in a horrific manner as a result of her personal prejudices, she feels no remorse, completely ignoring any sense of being part of a community. She may have been running a charity at the time but in reality, it was run as a way for the rich to reduce their guilt for ignoring the poor around them, while barely scratching the surface of poverty. Sheila Birling is completely different to both her parents. Although she played a major part in Eva Smith’s suicide in the form of jealousy, she is genuinely distraught over the whole situation. She willingly takes responsibility for her part in the suicide and even wishes to change her ways after hearing what the Inspector has to say while going against her parent’s carefree behaviour after the inspector has left.
Further along, in act 3, Sheila and Eric’s bond became more and more stronger as they backed each other up from their parents when the Birlings thought that everything is fine and sorted out because the inspector wasn’t a real police officer. Here Sheila expresses herself and that’s when we understand that they are thinking the same way. “That’s just what I feel, Eric.” That “just” emphasise in how alike the two minds are and the complete agitation they are feeling because of their parents “not understanding”. A page on wards, Shiela believes in her parent’s ignorance and says that no matter what we do, Eva is still dead and no money payback from Eric is going to change this. After hearing this, Eric immediately agrees with her and fights for and with his sister” and it doesn’t alter the fact that we helped to kill her”.
She looks down on most people and expects the Inspector to treat her with the upmost respect she often treats the Inspector as inferior. Sheila the young pretty daughter, she is for filling her father’s dream of becoming upper-class by marrying an upper-class man Gerald. She is deeply affected by Eva Smith’s death she is initially very naive to suggest that someone can drink disinfectant by accident “Oh- how horrible! Was it an accident?” however later on she shows her own jealousy and bad temper causing Eva Smith to lose he jobs but she always accepts responsibility this reflects Priestley’s faith in the new generation that it will be filled with young socialist caring people who work