Sheila Birling

• She is described at the start as "a pretty girl in her early twenties, very learnt rope pleased naive with life and rather perceptiveexcitedhappenedpleased ."
• Even though she seems very playful at the opening, we know that she has had compassion conscience curioussuspicions about Gerald when she mentions "last summer, when you never came near me." Does this suggest that she is not as naive conscience unfavourable trivial and shallow as she first appears?
• Although she has probably never in her life before considered the conditions of the workers, she shows her pleased suspicions compassion rope immediately she hears of her father's treatment of Eva Smith: "But these girls aren't cheap unfavourable learnt pleased labour - they're people."Already, she is starting to change.
• She is horrified rope trivial conscience by her own part in Eva's story. She feels full of guilt learnt suspicions naive for her jealous actions and blames herself as"really responsible."
• She is very excitednaive learnt perceptive: she realises that Gerald knew Daisy Renton from his reaction, the moment the Inspector mentioned her name. At the end of Act II, she is the first to realise Eric's part in the story. Significantly, she is the first to wonder who the Inspector really is, saying to him, 'perceptiveconscience trivial wonderingly', "I don't understand about you." She warns the others "he's giving us the pleased horrified rope conscience - so that we'll hang ourselves" (Act II) and, near the end, is the first to consider whether the Inspector may not be real.
• She is curiouscompassion conscience rope . She genuinely wants to know about Gerald's part in the story. It's interesting that she is not angry with him when she hears about the learnt unfavourable affairnaive : she says that she respects his honesty. She is becoming more mature.
• She is angry with her parents in Act 3 for trying to "pretend that nothing much has perceptiveexcitedpleased happened." Sheila says "It frightens me the way you talk:" she cannot understand how they cannot have learnt guilt pleased labour from the evening in the same way that she has. She is seeing her parents in a new, trivial naive unfavourable labour light.
• At the end of the play, Sheila is much wiser. She can now rope guilt naive judge her parents and Gerald from a new perspective, but the greatest change has been in herself: her social suspicions naive conscience compassion has been awakened and she is aware of her responsibilities. The Sheila who had a girl dismissed from her job for a guilt horrified trivial naive reason has vanished forever.