Sheila Character analysis


	Personality	Role
	Regretful of her own actions "pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited" "distressed" by the situation	Represents socialism A foil - both she and Eva are young women but they led different lives due to wealt Represents the younger generation Represents envy out of the seven deadly sins
	Development (Growth & change)	Other information
	naive, protected, childish (calls her dad 'Daddy'), materialistic Assertive (stands up for herself) Insightful (realises it is everyone's fault, realises Eric is father, mentions wall between the Birlings and the Inspector) Develops good moral values, respects Gerald for being honest about the affair, frustrated that others haven't learnt anything yet As the play continues her language becomes more like that of Inspector Goole's, it starts as "I" then it goes to "they"and then "us"	Naive, protected, materialistic: "very pleased with life", "Mummy", "Daddy", "now I really feel engaged", Assertive: "These girls aren't cheap labour - they're people", "Mother, stop it!", "don't interfere please father" Insightful: "between us we killed her", "you mustn't try and build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do then the inspector will break it down and it'll be all the worse when he does", "he knows. Of course he knows." Good moral values: "You began to learn something. And now you've stopped.", "in fact in some odd way I rather respect you more than I ever did before"

Represents socialism
A foil - both she and Eva are young women but they led different lives due to wealt
Represents the younger generation
Represents envy out of the seven deadly sins

naive, protected, childish (calls her dad 'Daddy'), materialistic
Assertive (stands up for herself)
Insightful (realises it is everyone's fault, realises Eric is father, mentions wall between the Birlings and the Inspector)
Develops good moral values, respects Gerald for being honest about the affair, frustrated that others haven't learnt anything yet
As the play continues her language becomes more like that of Inspector Goole's, it starts as "I" then it goes to "they"and then "us"

Naive, protected, materialistic: "very pleased with life", "Mummy", "Daddy", "now I really feel engaged",
Assertive: "These girls aren't cheap labour - they're people", "Mother, stop it!", "don't interfere please father"
Insightful: "between us we killed her", "you mustn't try and build up a kind of wall between us and that girl. If you do then the inspector will break it down and it'll be all the worse when he does", "he knows. Of course he knows."
Good moral values: "You began to learn something. And now you've stopped.", "in fact in some odd way I rather respect you more than I ever did before"

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