Inspector

• Stage directions


  Creates at once an impression of massiveness solidity and purpose
• No thank you me birling


  I'm on duty
• She'd swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant.

  Burnt her inside out of course
• She was in great agony


  Suicide of course
• Stage directions


  Cutting through massively
• One person and one line of

  Inquiry at a time. Otherwise there's a muddle
• What happened to her then may have

  Determined what happened to her after
• May have driven her to suicide


  A chain of events
• It's better to ask for the earth

  Than to take it
• She wasn't pretty when I saw her today


  But she had been pretty - very pretty
• Out of work for the next two months


  Her parents were dead ... hadn't been able to save much
• No work no money coming in ...


  Lonely half starved she was feeling desperate
• In the place of these young women


  Counting their pennies in their dingy little back bedrooms
• She enjoyed being


  Among the pretty clothes ... a good fresh start
• That's more or less what I was thinking earlier tonight

  Looking at what was left of Eva smith. A promising life there I thought and a nasty mess somebody's made of it
• And I think


  You'd better stay (Eric)
• Often if it was left to me


  I wouldn't know where to draw the line
• You used the power you had ...


  To punish the girl just because she made you feel like that
• That's what I asked myself tonight

  When I was looking at that dead girl
• Changed her name


  To daisy renton
• And you think young women


  Ought to be protected against pleasant and disturbing things?
• If there's nothing else


  We'll have to share our guilt
• We often do on the

  Young ones they're more impressionable
• He's a young man and some young men


  Drink far too much
• Your daughter isn't living


  On the moon she's here in brumley too
• She felt there'd never be anything as good


  Again for her so she had to make it last longer
• Public men mr birling have responsibilities as well as privileges
• This girl was going


  To have a child
• She'd been turned out and


  Turned down too many times. This was the end
• You not only refused it yourself


  But saw to it that the others refused it too
• No hushing it up eh


  Make an example of the young man eh public confession of responsibility
• But each one of you


  Helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget.
• Remember what you did mrs birling

  You refused her even the pitiable little bit of organised charity you had in your power to grant
• Just used her for the end


  Of a stupid drunken evening as if she was an animal a thing not a person
• She wanted twenty five shillings a week instead of twenty two and sixpence


  You made her pay a heavy price for that and now she'll make you pay a heavier price still
• You're offering the money


  At the wrong time
• Eva smith is gone


  You can't do her any more harm and you can't do her any good now either
• One Eva smith is gone but there are

  Millions and millions and millions of Eva smiths and John smiths still left with us
• With their lives their hopes


  And fears and their suffering ... all intertwined with the out lives
• We don't live alone

  We are members of one body