Quotes

• ‘Wretched girls suicide’ (Birling)

  ACT 1- Birling was not fond of Eva
• ‘Good looking girl’(Birling) ‘very pretty’(Shiela) ‘pretty‘(Eric)

  beautiful but also link to patriarchal and objectification
• ‘Girls of that class’(Mrs B)

  ACT 2- working class girls like Eva are looked down on
• ‘She was young and pretty and warm hearted and intensely grateful‘ (Gerald)


  ACT 2- Eva was everything Sheila was not
• ‘She only had herself to blame’(Mrs B) 


  ACT 2- show how little care upper classes have for working class
• ‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’(Mrs B)


  Poor people are assumed to have no morals