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An Inspector Calls

Act Two

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Plot summary eercise ! Act Two


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"heila

#hy does $erald suggest that "heila ought to be

ecused at the beginning of Act Two%

#hy does "heila refuse to leave%

#hat eplanation does the inspector provide%

Sheila has already accepted and acknowledged that she is

at least partly to blame for !a"s death and now she wants to

know who else is implicated#

$if she lea!es %s now&

and doesn"t hear any

more& then she"ll feel

she"s entirely to blame


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&rs 'irling

(rs Birling"s entrance is )*%ite o%t of keywith the little scene that has +%st passed"#

(ow would you describe &rs 'irling’s

attitude to the inspector%

(ow does the inspector react to &rs

'irling%

(ow does "heila react to her mother%


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&rs 'irling

-aref%lly read the scene from (rs Birling"s entrance %ntil

.erald ne/t speaks#Act out this scene in groups of three, paying careful

attention to the stage directions.


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&rs 'irling

#hat impressions do you have of &rs 'irling%

ill in the table with *%otes and e/amples to s%pport yo%r ideas#

ersonality !idence


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)ric

(rs Birling is horrified to disco!er ric is a hea!y drinker#

#hy do you think "heila tells her the truth%#hat else do we know about )ric%

%estioned his

father"s actions in

firing !a

n an e/citable

mood

4sked to be

e/c%sed


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$erald

e now learn of .erald"s role in !a

Smith8aisy 9enton"s r%in#

#hat do we already know about $erald%

ersonality !idence


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$erald and *aisy


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$erald’s role

;e ob!io%sly liked her as he describes her as )!ery pretty <

soft brown hair and big dark eyes"#

;e is %pset when he s%ddenly reali=es that it is she who is

dead#

hen they first met he had resc%ed her from a oldwomani=er#

hen he reali=ed she was h%ngry he got her food#

;e pro!ided her with somewhere to li!e when he fo%nd o%t

she was being t%rned o%t of her room#hen he ended the affair he ga!e her some money to li!e

on for a while#

hen he has confessed all he goes o%t beca%se he is

gen%inely %pset abo%t 8aisy#

#hat arguments can you put forward to defend $erald’s

behaviour towards *aisy%


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>ow the inspector t%rns his attention to

(rs Birling#

&rs 'irling’s role

(ow does &rs 'irling react to being

-uestioned%

#hat was her involvement with )va

"mith%



&rs 'irling ! true or false%


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&rs 'irling’s reasons

(rs Birling e/plains why she t%rned the girl

down# She had three reasons##hat were they%

1# ?he girl had called herself (rs Birling#

2# She had lied abo%t being married#

3# hen she e/plained that she didn"t want

to take any more money from the father

beca%se he was stealing it& (rs Birling

did not belie!e her& ass%ming a girl ofher class wo%ld take any money offered

to her#


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(rs Birling has no regrets abo%t t%rning the girl

down# She states openly that she %sed her

infl%ence on the committee to see the girl got no

help#

4s 4ct two draws to a close the tension mo%nts#

?he a%dience begin to s%spect ric"s in!ol!ement

with !a before (rs Birling does& and wait for her

to realise the tr%e meaning of her words#

*ramatic irony

"ll tell yo% what told her# .o

and look for the father of the

child# t"s his responsibility#

Find a -uotation from &rs 'irling in this scene which

shows Priestley’s use of dramatic irony.


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Act Two -uestions

?hink back to the predictions yo% made at the end of 4ct

@ne# ;ow acc%rate were theyA 9e!ise yo%r predictionsfor how the play may end# 4re yo%r predictions the same

or are they differentA n what waysA

;as yo%r opinion of any of the characters changed after

reading 4ct ?woA

;ow has Sheila and .erald"s relationship altered since

the beginning of the playA

4ct ?wo ends with ric"s ret%rn and entry into the diningroom# ;ow does riestley b%ild %p tension to this pointA

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