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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%
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&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