mrs birling

• priestly uses her to show how conventional ideas of responsibility in the upper class are corrupt
• "prominent member" of womens charity


  implying she has a duty to care for those who come to her, yet she blatantly neglects the responsibility
• "girls of that sort"
• semantic field of virtue implys she feels a false sense of moral accomplishment
• mrs birlings lack of responsibility sugests she is insincere and callous
• preistly uses mrs birlings neglect towards eva to imply how the lower class will never recieve the help they need