Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sheila Birling
- Strong-minded: "I don't believe
I will. So you be careful."
- Sharp: "He's giving us the rope -
so that we'll hang ourselves"
- Selfish: "you used power you
had [...] to punish that girl"
- Moral: "But these girls aren't
cheap labour - they're people"
- Quick- witted
- Strong-minded
- Hands the
engagement ring
back to Gerald
- Wise
- Suspects Eric is the
father of the child
- By the end of the play,
she has changed for
good
- Sensitive
- Moral
- Her language makes her
seem childish at first
- Stage directions say
she's "very please with
life and rather excited"
- Slang expressions like "squiffy"
remind the audience that Sheila
belongs to a younger generation
- When she gets the ring she's
very excited, and looks to her
mother for approval. "Look -
Mummy - isn't it a beauty?"
- She jokes with Gerald, but the
stage directions say that she's
"half serious, half playful"
- Priestley gives Sheila witty
lines to make her appear
sharp. The wit undermines the
authority of the others as she
makes jokes at their expense