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

English Coursework - An Inspector Calls.After the inspector leaves, The Birlings wrangle the nights events.They go into a stage of blaming each-other for Eva Smiths death,pushing the guilt onto one-another. Mr. Birling still does not havehis priorities right away as the first thing that initially springs tohis mind is that fact that the families record pass on go d ingest thedrain if any of the information they gave extinct will be found out by thepublic. He claimed that at that placell be a public scandal. He was certainthat he was going to get a knighthood in the next honours list. Inresponse to his begetters attitude, Eric is unconcerned approximately what thepublic will think, scarce more concerned about what went on that night.Mister and Mrs Birling wear offt want to admit to themselves that theyplayed any part in the girls death, and keep twisting the subject topoint the convict back to Eric. Eric informed his parents Well, I dontblame you. precisely dont forget Im ashamed of you as well- yes both ofyou. He is openly admitting that he has done wrong, but thinks thatit is below the belt to take all the responsibility for the death of the girl.Here again, his Father was focal point the blame away from them by sayingTheres every excuse for what both your mother and I did- it turnedout unfortunately, thats all. This is a gutless attitude for them tohave considering how they were feeling before the inspector leave them.Sheila was quiet up until this.Sheila is on Erics side and openly admitted that she behaved badly,but she then pointed out that they were pretending that nothing oftenhas 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 by and by 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 mix ed up together. Thinking 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 draw 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 there isstill rely that his reputation is not at stake, and let off the hook