An Inspector Calls Plot

An Inspector Calls Plot

1. Act One

   • Spring 1912 - the wealthy Birlings are celebrating Sheila and Gerald's engagement.
   • Mr Birling gives a speech about his views on business and the state of the economy.
   • Gerald presents Sheila with her engagement ring.
   • The evening is interrupted by the arrival of a police inspector - Inspector Goole.
   • Inspector Goole is investigating the suicide of a young girl - Eva Smith.
   • He questions Mr Birling about his treatment of Eva Smith when she worked at his factory. He fired her for being a ring leader in a strike.
   • Sheila admits that she treated Eva Smith badly when she was working at Milwards as she was jealous. This got Eva fired.
   • Gerald reveals to Sheila that he also knew Eva but by the name of Daisy Renton.

2. Act Two

   • Gerald and Sheila have an argument about the situation with Eva Smith/Daisy Renton.
   • Mrs Birling enters the room and tried to bully the inspector.
   • Gerald gives details the of his affair with Eva Smith/Daisy Renton who was then working as a prostitute as she was desperate for money.
   • Sheila expresses her guilt for the way she treated Eva Smith.
   • Sheila gives her engagement ring back to Gerald. He leaves.
   • Mrs Birling is forced to admit that she also knew Eva Smith.
   • Eva Smith was pregnant and Mrs Birling refused to help her when she went to Mrs Birlings woman's charity.
   • Mrs Birling says the father of the unborn child is to blame. Sheila tries to stop her from speaking.
   • There is a realisation from the other characters that Eric is the father of the unborn baby.
   • Eric then enters the room.

3. Act Three

   • Eric confesses that he was the one who got Eva Smith pregnant. This makes Mrs Birling very distressed.
   • Eric reveals that he stole money from Birlings business to give to Eva Smith.
   • Eric learns that his mother refused to help Eva and accuses her of killing her grandchild.
   • The Inspector gives a speech on social justice and responsibility and then leaves.
   • Mr and Mrs Birling refuse to accept responsibility for Eva's death.
   • Sheila and Eric accept the part they played in Eva's death.
   • Gerald returns, having discovered that there is no Inspector Goole in the police force in Brumley.
   • The family works out that the Inspector was an imposter and there was no suicide.
   • The phone rings - a police inspector is on their way to talk to the family about a suicide that has happened.

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