Sheila Birling

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