J.B.Priestley’s play, An Inspector Calls :: English Literature

English Coursework - An Inspector Calls.After the inspector leaves, The birlings discuss the nights events.They go into a order of blaming each-other for Eva Smiths death,pushing the guilt onto one-a nonher. Mr. Birling still does not havehis priorities straight as the first thing that initially springs tohis learning ability is that fact that the families reputation will go down thedrain if either of the information they gave out will be found out by thepublic. He claimed that Therell be a public scandal. He was truethat he was going to get a knighthood in the next honour list. Inresponse to his fathers attitude, Eric is unconcerned close to what thepublic will think, but more concerned about what went on that night.Mister and Mrs Birling dont want to admit to themselves that theyplayed any part in the girls death, and keep twisting the affair topoint the blame back to Eric. Eric informed his parents Well, I dontblame you. But dont forget Im ashamed of you as well- yes both ofyou. He is openly admitting that he has through with(p) wrong, but thinks thatit is unfair to take all the responsibility for the death of the girl. here(predicate) again, his Father was steering the blame away from them by sayingTheres all excuse for what both your mother and I did- it turnedout unfortunately, thats all. This is a gutless attitude for them tohave con gradientring how they were feeling out front the inspector left them.Sheila was quiet up until this.Sheila is on Erics side and openly admitted that she behaved badly,but she so pointed out that they were pretending that nothing a lothas happened. It is here when Eric reminds his father of what he hadtold himself and Gerald earlier that evening just before the inspectorhad arrived- A man has to make his own way, look after himself andmind his own business, and that we werent to take any notice of thesecranks who tells us that everybody has to look after everybody else,as if we were all mixed up in concert. Thin king about this, theBirlings begin to have doubts as to whether the inspector is in fact,an inspector. It seemed too ironic that an inspector would walk in atthat moment. Sheila described it as being very queer. She thenquoted it doesnt much matter now how ever mister Birling disagreesas it matters a devil of a lot to him. He is relieved that in that location isstill hope that his reputation is not at stake, and let despatch the hook