Sheila Birling

• She is described at the start as "a pretty girl in her early twenties, very rope naive pleased learnt with life and rather happenedexcitedperceptivepleased ."
• Even though she seems very playful at the opening, we know that she has had curiouscompassion suspicions conscience about Gerald when she mentions "last summer, when you never came near me." Does this suggest that she is not as naive conscience trivial unfavourable 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 pleased compassion rope 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 rope conscience horrified trivial by her own part in Eva's story. She feels full of guilt learnt naive suspicions 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, 'trivial conscience wonderinglyperceptive', "I don't understand about you." She warns the others "he's giving us the pleased rope horrified 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 conscience curious. 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 perceptiveexcitedpleased happened." Sheila says "It frightens me the way you talk:" she cannot understand how they cannot have labour guilt pleased learnt from the evening in the same way that she has. She is seeing her parents in a new, labour trivial naive unfavourable light.
• At the end of the play, Sheila is much wiser. She can now naive judge rope guilt her parents and Gerald from a new perspective, but the greatest change has been in herself: her social suspicions naive compassion conscience has been awakened and she is aware of her responsibilities. The Sheila who had a girl dismissed from her job for a trivial horrified guilt naive reason has vanished forever.