Sheila

• 'But these girls aren't cheap labour, they're people'


  Has connotations of innocence

  Further emphasises the dehumanisation/exploitation of the lower classes by the capitalists

  B and P plosive creates a harsh sound indicating the barabaric conditions of the working class
• 'Look mummy - isn't it a beauty'


  Materialistic mindset

  Dash implies she is choked up with emotion

  Abstract noun - focuses on the superficial aspects of the ring rather than it's meaning

  Audience may dismiss her opinions due to a lack of maturity
• 'Don't interfere, please father'


  Voicing her opinions shows a level of maturity and independence

  Imperative used although she is polite in telling her father what to do

  Inverts the family power in 1912
• 'I think you'd better take this with you!'


  Flat and exclamatory shows her anger and determination

  Becoming her own person

  Symbolises capitalist and patriarchal views as if she takes it back she will turn back on socialist ideologies
• 'I don't dislike you as I did an hour ago, in fact I rather respect you'


  Understanding/tolerant and appreciates honesty

  Gerald may try and rationalise and normalise his actions to save himself

  Still acknowledging his actions and what was motivating him
• 'I'll never never do it again to anybody.. I feel I can never go back there again'


  Shows a deep remorse for her actions

  Ashamed of what she did out of wrath and jealousy
• 'Why - you fool - of course he knows!'


  Referring to the Inspector being godlike and omniscient as he is the raisonneur of the morality play
• 'You and I aren't the same people that sat down to dinner here'


  Suggestive of everyone's change however we know this to only be remotely true for Eric and Sheila as they are representative of the younger generation
• '(She gets closer to him wonderingly) I don't understand about you'


  Physical closeness perhaps portrays the fact that Sheila is becoming closer to socialist than capitalist

  Priestley doesn't use the idiomatic expression 'I don't understand you' or 'I don't understand', but rather the proposition 'about' suggests Sheila understands the Inspector's didactic purpose but suspects that he may be a supernatural being or serves a greater purpose beyond her understanding