Shiela

• priestly uses Sheila to explore the power of an individual in a biased society and challenge stereotypes of gender.
• Women during the edwardian era were treated unequally
• “Mummy” “daddy”
• “Young girl in her twenties”
• At the begining of the play Sheila is an immature and materialistic character.
• She is treated as inferior by other characters through the play.
• “I have been trying long enough haven’t I? “. “of course she does“


  Shows how she has been treated as inferior by other characters.
• ”you fool he knows” “you’re forgetting I’m supposed to be engaged to a hero”


  Shows her dramatic shift in personality turning from a once passive character to a new out speaking and almost aggressive one. She is no longer governed by her emotions.
• “Mother” “father”


  She has changed. Her character has matured. Shows she has learned her social responsibilities from the inspectors interrogation.
• “How?” ”it was true wasn't it?” “did you notice that?”

  she is interrogating her family and gerald and holding them accountable for their roles in the suicide of Eva Smith.
• “Fire and blood and anguish”


  She has taken on the role of the inspector Mirroring his exact words. Showing she has learnt her lesson and is now trying to teach others the same lesson.
• Sheila becomes a role model to the audience in the later stages of the play.