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• the Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald who Mr Birling knows well as Geralds father is a business competator
• The Inspector knocks on the door and disturbs the celebration and accuses each of the Birlings and Gerald of making a girl kill herself
• Eva was employed by Mr Birling and was fired unfairly, she was then taken on in a shop called Millwards where Sheila used her social influence to get Eva fired out of jealousy
• sheila begins to feel terrible remourse for her actions and is ashamed of her behaviour
• Sheila realises that Gerald knew Eva as 'Daisy Renton'