The story takes its start an evening in spring to the engagement party of Gerald Croft and Sheila Birling, in the house of the Birling. They are all having a jolly evening, until Inspector Goole is interrupting the little party with bad news.

A young woman have maid suicide, and all the Birlings are more or less involved. All their stories about their relationship to the young girl, are very complicated, and they have all made themselves guilty in some way. The inspector leaves, and by many reasons the Birlings are not sure that he is a real police officer. Few minutes later the phone calls announcing that there is a police inspector on his way. He is going to ask them some questions about the suicide of a young girl.

- Eva Smith (the one who have made suicide)

An essay about “An inspector calls”:

The story takes its place in the fictive industrial town Brumley, in the North Midlands in England. The time is 1912, right before the first world war. The Birlin

gs are having an engagement party of Gerald Croft and Sheila Birling, in the house of the Birling. Their house is large and very comfortable , and they are smoking cigars and drinking champagne, which tell us a little about that the Birlings belongs to the rich and the upper class. They seems to be a too perfect upper class family, with a lot of power over the lower classes, and this are partly because of all the money they have.

Sheila Birling is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Birling, and she is engaged to Gerald Croft. She is a very pretty girl, and very pleased with life . When she talks she use irony and sarcasm , and she loves clothes and jewels. In the beginning she is also snobbish and self-confident, but she gets very upset when she hears of Eva’s death. Sheila was responsible for Eva to get the sack from a store, because she was jealous of Eva’s beauty. But in the end she feels very sorry for what she have done, and she thinks that her father’s reaction is unacceptable . She now admit her faults, and agrees that she has behaved really badly . Sheila feels sorry for the girl, and when Gerald tells about his love affair with Eva. Sheila brakes the engagement, but she is mature about it and remains calm . Gerald is a well-bred young man-about town, and he is an attractive friend to the Birlings . He is just that kind of son-in-law Mr. Birling has always wanted, because Gerald’s family is social about the Birlings, and Gerald’s father is an rival to

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