analysis - sheila

• "mummy - isn't it a beauty?"

  at beginning Sheila plays a stereotypical pre war higher class woman

  role is to marry and have children

  excited to get married to a wealthy man and show off her expensive engagement ring

  materialistic

  child like

  feels need to show of

  changes to mother
• "you and I aren't the same people who sat down to dinner here"

  shows emotional maturity

  realises she doesn't really know her fiancé

  she doesn't hate him

  cannot commit to spending her life with a man she doesn't know

  not worried about losing a business connection (unlike her father)
• "but these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people"

  battle between socialism and capitalism

  capitalism change the way people think

  see other people as workers and use them to benefit themselves

  capitalism dehumanises people
• "the point is you don't seem to have learnt anything

  she isn't hysterical but direct

  they haven't changed

  power of socialism - transformed Sheila from weak to strong

  character of Shelia - speaks for women, working class and social justice

  Birlings learn nothing - don't listen to Shelia, power of socialism is too strong

  don't take responsibility all blame each other