Sheila Birling

• "These girls aren't just cheap labour, they're people"


  Contradicts her parents views, shows she feels sympathy towards people of lower class

  She is instinctive, insightful and perceptive
• "Fire and blood and anguish"


  Desperately tries to advise her parents to accept their responsibilities to avoid consequences

  Becomes plagued by guilt of her actions
• tells her father "don't interfere"

  contradicts and undermines her parents which shows she has changed and is influenced by the inspector
• "I'm not a child"


  She becomes more wise throughout the play and is more mature than her parents showing she understands her mistakes and is not naive