J.B.Priestley’s play, An Inspector Calls - Eva Smith :: English Literature

Eva Smith - calibre study.There are many rea give-and-takes for the devastation of Eva Smith. Each one of thelogrolling family and Gerald pushed Eva Smith a little closer to suicidebut no one person was solely responsible for her death. It was notonly the birlings that contributed to Eva Smiths death but herposition in the world she was in, she was very poor and scurvy in societyMr Birling was the first person who we were led to take started offthe train of events that led to the death of Eva Smith. I dontbelieve that Mr Birling did anything that ultimately push Eva tocommit suicide the only thing he did was sack her from his factoryafter she started to cause trouble demanding higher struggle and gettingthe other girls in the factory to go on strike. nearly men in hisposition would have done the same. Mr Birling utter to the inspector,She had a lot to say far to a fault much so she had to go.Although I dont think that Mr Birling did anything really wrongregarding Eva he does not come off well through come out of the closet the play as heshows himself up a number of times because of his personality. Themajor demerit in his personality is that he seems to show no remorse forEva and his son Eric is annoyed by this. He seems to be a very strainingman, and shows no regret for dismissing Eva which led to her death.Sheila was the second person that the Inspector turn on and her partin the run up to Evas death shows her in an unfavourable light as sheturned on Eva because she was jealous of her. Sheila wrongfully usedher position as an important customer to turn Eva out of a job. Sheeven admits, it was my own fault, and that she was in a wildtemper. She was jealous of Eva describing her as a very pretty girltoo - with big dark eyes.Although her actions show her to be a fully grown tempered, jealous andmalicious person you get the impression as she begins to speech thatthat is quite a harsh view of her and that although she does have badcharacteristics sh e isnt really as bad as you first think her to be.She shows herself to be honest admitting straight away all that shehad done, that she caught sight of her smiling at the assistant and Iwas furious with her.Gerald was the third person to come under the spotlight.