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

Eva Smith - character study.There are many reasons for the death of Eva Smith. Each one of the birle family and Gerald pushed Eva Smith a little closer to suicide overweightly 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 low in societyMr Birling was the first person who we were led to believe started offthe check over of sluicets 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 wages and gettingthe other girls in the factory to go on strike. Most men in hisposition would form done the same. Mr Birling said to the inspector,She had a lot to say far too much so she had to go.Although I dont think that Mr Birling did anything actually wrongregarding Eva he does not come off wel l throughout the play as heshows himself up a number of times because of his personality. Themajor(ip) fault 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 hardman, and shows no regret for dismissing Eva which led to her death.Sheila was the second person that the Inspector turned on and her partin the run up to Evas death shows her in an bad 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 furioustemper. She was jealous of Eva describing her as a very pretty girltoo - with big dark look.Although her actions show her to be a bad tempered, jealous andmalicious person you get the impression as she begins to talk thatthat is quite a harsh run across of her and that although she does have badcharacteristics she isnt really as bad as you first think her to be.S he shows herself to be honest admitting straight away all that shehad done, that she caught draw of her smiling at the assistant and Iwas furious with her.Gerald was the third person to come under the spotlight.