Sheila Birling


	Sheila's language is childish at first.	Sheila turns out to be more mature than the audience first thought.
	Stage directions say she is- "Very pleased with life" and "rather excited". (She can be seen as spoilt.) Uses slang expressions such as "squiffy" which remind the audience that Sheila belongs to a younger generations. Sheila gets the ring and is very excited, she looks to her mother for approval when she says "Look-mummy-isn't it a beauty" She jokes with Gerald but the stage directions say that she is "half serious, half playful". Her childish behaviour could be a way of hiding her serious concerns about her relationship with Gerald. She is selfish and abused her status as a wealthy customer at Milwards when she insisted they dismiss Eva.	Sheila behaves childishly at the beginning but when she learns what has happened she breaks away from parents and starts to understand the inspector and almost unites with him. She has wise instincts- Sheila manages to work out what the inspector is doing and she also knew that Gerald's absence in the summer was suspicious. The inspector says, she "isn't living on the moon", and she says to her father, "I am not a child." She isn't completely naïve. She knows about prostitutes and that men use them. Sheila acknowledges that she used her "power" to punish Eva Smith and regrets her actions. She also claims responsibility unlike some of the other characters.
	Different from the rest of her family.	Inspector Changes Her

Stage directions say she is- "Very pleased with life" and "rather excited". (She can be seen as spoilt.)
Uses slang expressions such as "squiffy" which remind the audience that Sheila belongs to a younger generations.
Sheila gets the ring and is very excited, she looks to her mother for approval when she says "Look-mummy-isn't it a beauty"
She jokes with Gerald but the stage directions say that she is "half serious, half playful". Her childish behaviour could be a way of hiding her serious concerns about her relationship with Gerald.
She is selfish and abused her status as a wealthy customer at Milwards when she insisted they dismiss Eva.

Sheila behaves childishly at the beginning but when she learns what has happened she breaks away from parents and starts to understand the inspector and almost unites with him.
She has wise instincts- Sheila manages to work out what the inspector is doing and she also knew that Gerald's absence in the summer was suspicious.
The inspector says, she "isn't living on the moon", and she says to her father, "I am not a child."
She isn't completely naïve. She knows about prostitutes and that men use them.
Sheila acknowledges that she used her "power" to punish Eva Smith and regrets her actions. She also claims responsibility unlike some of the other characters.

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