In our literature class, we are reading a play called “An Inspector Calls” by J.B. Priestly. Our homework was to write the description of the people who where in the book.

Names Descriptions:

Mr. Arthur Birling: (Father)

• Interested on money, he was a business man
• He fired Eva Smith from his company, since she was one of the 5 people who started a strike wishing a better salary

Mrs. Sybil Birling: (Mother)

Sheila Birling: (Daughter)

• Compared the same thought with Eric about the trouble with Alton and Eva Smith

Eric Birling: (Son)

• He likes drinking

Gerald Croft: (Sheila’s future husband)

• Sheila’s and Gerald’s “love” was a little bit an arrangement, since Gerald form part of the upper class (like the Birlings), so if they were married, Mr. Arthur was going to have more money.

Inspector Goole

• Very Ironic

Eva Smith

• She committed suicide

2 years before…

• She worked in Mr. Birling’s company
• She was fired since she was one of the 5 persons who started a strike asking for more money
• She live 2 months in a very bad situation (with out a job) and no one could help her since she didn’t have parents (they had died), she didn’t have many friends, etc.
• She change her name
• She was lucky, she found a job in a clothing shop were the higher classes buy cloth (where Sheila goes)
• She was fired since one consumer (Sheila) complained