Sheila Birling

• She is described at the start as "a pretty girl in her early twenties, very learnt naive pleased rope with life and rather excitedhappenedpleased perceptive."
• Even though she seems very playful at the opening, we know that she has had conscience curioussuspicions compassion about Gerald when she mentions "last summer, when you never came near me." Does this suggest that she is not as conscience unfavourable trivial naive and shallow as she first appears?
• Although she has probably never in her life before considered the conditions of the workers, she shows her rope suspicions pleased compassion immediately she hears of her father's treatment of Eva Smith: "But these girls aren't cheap labour learnt pleased unfavourable - they're people."Already, she is starting to change.
• She is horrified rope conscience trivial by her own part in Eva's story. She feels full of learnt suspicions guilt naive for her jealous actions and blames herself as"really responsible."
• She is very excitednaive perceptivelearnt : 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, 'wonderinglyconscience trivial perceptive', "I don't understand about you." She warns the others "he's giving us the horrified pleased 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 rope compassion curiousconscience . 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 naive affairunfavourable : 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 pleased happenedexcitedperceptive." Sheila says "It frightens me the way you talk:" she cannot understand how they cannot have pleased learnt labour guilt from the evening in the same way that she has. She is seeing her parents in a new, unfavourable trivial labour naive light.
• At the end of the play, Sheila is much wiser. She can now rope naive judge guilt her parents and Gerald from a new perspective, but the greatest change has been in herself: her social naive conscience compassion suspicions has been awakened and she is aware of her responsibilities. The Sheila who had a girl dismissed from her job for a trivial naive horrified guilt reason has vanished forever.