sheila

• hubris - looks and vanity
• "a pretty girl...very pleased with life and rather excited"
• socialism

  "these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people"
• socialism

  "impertinent is such a silly word"
• wealth + materialism

  "now I really feel engaged"
• social class

  "i've been so happy tonight. Oh, I wish you hadn't told me"
• social class

  "you mustn't try to build a wall between us and that girl"
• gender

  "half serious, half playful"
• gender

  "is it the one you wanted me to have?"
• younger generation

  "it's you two who are being childish"
• younger generation

  "it frightens me the way you talk"
• social responsibility

  "fire, blood and anguish"
• social responsibility

  "Oh - how horrible"
• social responsibility

  "It was my own fault...I feel rotten about it"
• mature

  "mother"
• mature

  "i'll never, never do it again"
• mature

  "you don't seem to have learned anything"
• younger generation

  "he's giving us the rope to hang ourselves"
• the inspector's proxy
• ideal recipient of inspectors message
• overwhelming emotional response to her immoral actions
• a woman attempting to redefine the role of women at a time when rights were being sought