An Inspector calls plot & structure

An Inspector calls plot & structure

1. Act 1

   • engagement party
     • hints of conflict
       • birling's speech
         • inspector comes
           • Birling
             • Shelia
               • Eva -> Daisy
                 • Gerald
                   • no engagment
                     • Mr B backs him up saying lots of men have mistresses
                     • G asks I if he can leave not MRB - shows I is in controll
                     • CLIFFHANGER
                 • fresh start for Eva, or Inspector changing girls
               • devastated, takes responsibility
             • doesn't take responisbility
           • contrasts with the perfect middle class family
           • as soon as B says "a man has to mind his own bussines"
         • no war, business and capitalist views
       • croft family are not here, Gerald says he was "busy" during summer and there is a big difference in men and women
     • perfect middle class family

2. Act 3

   • Eric confesses all
     • B is apalled
       • E finds out his mum killed his child
         • Inspectors speech and exits
           • everyone's ashamed - but not at themselves
             • pondering about I
               • G says I fake
                 • phone call - inspector on way
                   • CLIFF HANGER
                   • just after B laughs and says "the famous younger generation who know it all"
                 • G offers S the ring back as "everything is alright now" she says no. atmoshpher returns as it was in the begning
               • S +S think he could be fake but S+E don't care , S+B care
             • Sybil -> erics drinking, Eric -> parents, Sheila -> herself
           • links to all eva smiths. were all "members of one body" and warns about learning in war
         • angry and says she never understood him
       • Not at suicide but by theft and shame

3. Act 2

   • Sybil
     • Mrs B blames the "father"
       • shelia understands
         • Eric enters!
           • looks "extremely pale and distress"
           • always running away from his family and their expectations of him
           • CLIFFHANGER
         • Shelia has matured - tells Mum and G to answer fully and tells B to be quiet
       • the man should be punished "very severely"
     • cant take responsibility and hard to crack