She is also the first to wonder whom Goole really is by suggesting he is some sort of impostor.Curiosity killed the cat and Sheila Birling is a curious person who needs to know about the part Gerald plays. She doesn’t get angry when she gets wind of the affair and respects his honesty; Sheila is becoming more mature. She is angry with her parents for not seeing everything unfold the way she does when they pretend nothing much has happened that evening and Shelia sees them in an unfavourable light. J.B. Priestley changes Sheila as he does with all the characters, so by the end of the play she is much wiser, judging her parents and Gerald differently. She has wised up to her responsibilities and becomes someone who would never spite a working-class girl for her pretty looks again.
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self. In Alice Walker story, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self: She started the story with a very smug outlook on life where she knows she’s beautiful and being the pride of her family and others simply admired her. “Take me Daddy, I’m the prettiest!”, a young walker said with assurance, as she uses her beauty to seek for her father’s approval. At six, she already memorized an Easter speech. When Alice was eight years old, she wore boyish clothes and played with her older brothers who carried not "real" guns.
This shows how naive she is about men, and when she gets married she is treated in the same way as the men she treated. Her husband ‘clicked his fingers, called [my] her bluff’. This is similar to the way in ‘Horse Whisperer’ that the whisperer’s life is turned around so quickly, because the woman in ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’ becomes ‘(yes, overnight) a plaything’ showing how fast this transformation happened. The differences between the two plays are quite subtle, with only a few differences. Whereas ‘Horse Whisperer’ is thirty-four lines long, ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’ is only fifteen long, prompting the thought that maybe the writer of ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’, Dorothy Molloy, was writing a short poem to show how the life of a woman who thinks big of herself has changed greatly over such a short space of time.
She reacts the same when she finds out about Eric being the father of the baby. She thinks she knows best for her children, she probably believes she is protecting them, for instance, when Gerald talks about “women of the town” and Mrs Birling wants Sheila to go out and not listen“ It would be much better if Sheila didn’t listen to this story at all”. Sybil is an extremely self-satisfied woman: “Yes. We’ve done a great deal of useful work in helping deserving cases”, she is very proud of herself and of the “kind” things she does and she is also a judgmental person. Priestly shows how she is the one that decides if she wants to help a woman in need.
How does Priestly develop the character of Sheila? At the beginning of the play, Priestly describes Sheila Birling as a “pretty girl at her early twenties” and is also known to be very perceptive and compassionate. When her parents, Mr and Mrs Birling take no responsibility for Eva Smith’s death, she tries to empathise more with Eva’s life and becomes more perceptive and so understands about what had happened to “Daisy’s” life. However, the beginning of the play portrays Sheila as a conscientious person, throughout the play when she says to Gerald “last summer when you never came near me” can demonstrate the audience about her suspicion on him which suggests that she’s quite sceptical and maybe even deep when thinking, even though she’s shown
Eva had gotten her a dress she had requested at Milwards and was present while she tried it on. She ‘caught sight of this girl smiling – as if to say: doesn’t she look awful’. Sheila was furious with Eva, but admitted to the Inspector it was mostly jealousy as she was such a pretty girl. Although Sheila got her fired from her last stable job I don’t think she is the most to blame, however she does hold a large part of the responsibility. Gerald was the next person to affect Eva Smith, although you could argue he helped her and actually made her life better.
We see this when Jem says “I declare to the lord that you’re getting more like a girl every day” Here we see that Jem, however well educated by Atticus has fallen victim to prejudice helping the reader understand that however well meaning a person may be they still become influenced by the prejudice around them. Harper Lee uses Aunt Alexandra to illustrate what was expected of women at the time in a deliberately negative way. Scout observes this and says, “Aunt Alexandria’s deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets and wearing the adda-pearl necklace she gave me when I was born.” Aunt Alexandra’s view of life astonishes Scout and therefore emphasises the fact that her upbringing, up till now, has been a complete contrast to how other children would have been raised. We also find that gender prejudice does not only restrict girls in their choices but also boys. A key example is when Scout’s cousin Francis says “ Grandma’s a wonderful cook (…) She’s gonna teach me how.” Scout replies bluntly “Boys don’t cook” This reversely links with Jem’s prejudgment of girls an again reveals that even the children of a deeply unbiased and just man can become influenced by the ideas of a community.
The narrator also claims that Jordan’s “complete self sufficiency draws a stunned tribute from him”. In this statement, he is not only addressing the pride and self-esteem the character exudes while keeping her chin raised and refusing to acknowledge his presence, but also describing a haughtiness that was unremarkable for a young lady of the Roaring Twenties to possess. Even Jordan Baker’s flapper physique reminds readers of the ideal woman of the era when Nick describes her as a “slender, small breasted girl”. In addition, he notices vivacity in her movements and how she self-assuredly wears her evening dresses like sportswear.
Elisa's pride in her ability to grow such beautiful flowers reinforces the fact that the flowers are a replacement for her children. In the second part of the story, the chrysanthemums come to symbolize Elisa's femininity and sexuality. The portrait of Elisa caring for the flowers as though they are her children is clearly a feminine image, but her masculine image is also observed in her "hard-swept and hard-polished" home (240). This image is carried over into her relationship with her husband. Elisa feels that Henry doesn't recognize or appreciate her femininity, and this feeling causes her to be antagonistic towards him.
Emma helps out around the house, treats friends and foes with respect and conducts herself reasonably well. It is obvious to everyone that she is undoubtedly nicer than her devious counterpart. Sutton's father, Ted, jokingly asks her, "Who are you and what have you done with my daughter?" The show seems to suggest how bad and corrosive lying can be, with several good characters talking about how important it is to be honest and truthful, particularly in regards to one's family and friends. Nevertheless, those very same good characters lie to each other constantly, even while understanding how two-faced they're being.