Characters Sheila Birling

Sheila Sheila is a caring person. She is a very pretty girl in her early 20’s. At first she is very pleased with herself and what she has achieved. She is a fun loving girl.

Engagement Shelia is ecstatic that she is engaged to Gerald Croft of Crofts Limited but we learn that she has always had suspicions about him when she mentions “last summer, when you never came near me”.

Milwards Milwards was one of the Birlings’ favourite shops. Sheila tells the Inspector about the day she insisted on trying something on which her mother and the shop assistant both said wouldn’t suit her. When she tried it on she saw Eva Smith who worked there smirking at her. Full of anger, she went to the manager and demanded that he sack her for being ‘impertinent’.

Change Sheila changes when she finds out that she is partly responsible for the death of Eva/ Daisy. She becomes a more caring person and realises, upper or lower class, we are all people. We should get treated the same.

Act 3 In Act 3, Shelia is angry with her parents. They think that as the Inspector wasn’t even a real police inspector that everything will just go back to normal, that nothing has changed. Possibly Sheila’s life had changed the most. She is a changed person, caring more about people’s feelings.