Mr Birling was the up bringer of Eva’s Smiths untimely death. Eva smith worked for Mr Birling in his factory. When Eva Smith came to Mr Birling asking for a pay rise of a few shillings (226 to 25 shillings), he refused this as he wanted to keep labour costs down, after being deprived of a few shillings; she was then called a trouble maker and was fired just because of asking a few shillings more so she could live.
Sheila was the second person to be blamed of Eva’s unfortunate death, just when Eva got a job at milwards after a while of unemployment, she had got fired due to jealousy and power, this was because Sheila thought that the hat her mother picked out for her to try on, looked better on Eva when she tried it on than on Sheila. This made Sheila furious, so she said “I’d never go near this place again… if they didn’t get rid of the girl”. She new she had the power to get her fired so inevitably Eva got fired, but in the end she resented it and wished she could take it back.
Mr Croft was the third person to hurt Eva Smith or Daisy Renton as he knew her. They first met in bar, Gerald saw her from a far where she stood out from everyone else she had soft brown big grey eyes and was extremely pretty, he went and talked to here and invited her back to a hotel, were they chatted a bit and had few drinks. Mr croft managed to get a bit out her and her life, she explains about her parent’s death and also unfortunate job less.
She was very ambiguous and she didn’t want to show that she was a little skint on money and was very hungry at the time. They met again a couple of days later and Gerald set her up with a flat, so she then became his mistress even though he had a girlfriend, Sheila which he kept secret from Daisy, but after a while he turned out Eva Smith back onto the streets with a little bit of money, she moved to the beach for a while to set her mind straight and go away from the grief and everything.
Mr Croft undeniably chose society over Eva Smith. Mrs Birling was the fourth person and maybe the harshest to be blamed for the death of Eva Smith, as she was a charity group worker. Eva came to Mrs Birling pregnant and in need of great help she called herself “Mrs Birling” which made Sheila really angry and prejudiced and so never gave her any help just more grief, she alluded to her as very “a girl of that sort”. As Sybil belongs to an honourable charity group who were supposed to help people.
However she uses this power to prevent the people she viewed unworthy and undesirable, help; for example Eva Smith, but when she finds out that the father of Eva’s child is her own son, she tried to protect him in everyway possible where as firstly she told Eva that he should be “publically embarrassed” she even thought that she was only doing this for money, she even could not see that her own son let alone needy people of the streets with no money and nothing to eat or wear needed help from his addiction on alcohol.
And by this she never made it easier for her son Eric to explain his actions in Eva Smith’s death and Eva doing the most she could was neglected. Eric plays the final part and the person to be blamed in Eva’s death. Eric Birling overpowered Eva while he was drunk one night, which carried on for quite a long time. This got Eva Smith pregnant when she told him that she was expecting a child to be born, he thought he could help her by giving her money, but when she found out that this was stolen money she refused him.
He thought that getting married could solve this problem but she knew he never really loved her so she couldn’t get married with Eric. Just like his father he used his power to get what he wanted where as his father used mark of consent over her, he’s contrite about the fact that all his family and family to be was involved in this really unfortunate suicide from Eva.
Inspector Goole is a strange eerie person who brings out the truth from everybody. The word Goole can mean ghost, he makes Sheila and Eric see what they have done wrong but Mr and Mrs Birling tried to carry on as if nothing happened, as if the whole situation of showing them what they have done was just a bad nightmare. He’s supposed to represent Priestley’s thoughts and ideas of the difference of the social inequalities.
In my conclusion of this essay shows that even though inspector Goole had certain indifferences and a sort of unnatural sense to him, he managed to take the truth out at all of them, and making them feel guilty even though it might have been untrue with all the photos and evidence which he used to make them feel even more guilty and spite, which also made them confess everything, Sheila was the only person to feel sorry for what she had done but her parents just wanted to carry on with there normal lives as nothing had happened.
