sheila

• ‘a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited’


  emphasis on standards for women in 1923 + foreshadows her actions due to being envious of eva‘s looks

  naïve, sheltered and childish
• ‘is it the one you wanted me to have?’


  •ring is symbol of ownership and sheila’s development
• ‘these girls aren’t cheap labour, they’re people’


  sheila standing up to her father with her modern beliefs shows her development from a naive child
• ‘mummy’


  immature

  product of a sheltered edwardian upper middle class childhood
• ‘so i’m really responsible?’


  •contrasts her parents’ views and relentlessness to admit mistakes as she almost immediately asks