Death of Eva Smith in J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls

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Death of Eva Smith in J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls J.B Priestly wrote the inspector calls in 1945. The play is set in the dining room of the Birlings house in Brumley, and Industrial City in the north midlands. This play, the Inspector calls focuses on the Birling family, there way of life and the way in which the inspector inspects them, into the death of Eva Smith or Daisy Renton. When the Inspector enters or just before, the Birling family and the Crofts were celebrating their engagement of Gerald Croft to Sheila Birling. Eva smith wasn't working class, and in the book she didn't appear to have any family. She was a "Lively good-looking girl-country bred." This is what Birling had said to the Inspector about her, some time later in the play when Sheila asks what this girl looked like, before she had drunk the disinfectant, and died, The Inspector answered with " Pretty". Birling also said, when the Inspector questioned him again about Eva, he said that she, "Was a good worker and that the leading Forman was going to put he in charge of a group of girls." When the Inspector asked if Eva Smith was a good worker at his factory, he had said she had been, until she had come and asked for a pay rise with three other girls. The Inspector then answered this by asking Mr Birling why he sacked Eva, this is how the inspector found out about one of the chain of events that leads to Eva smith dying by drinking the disinfectant. After Mr Birling sacked Eva, because he thought she was the ringleader troublemaker in his infirmary, Eva couldn't get another job, so she decided to change her name Daisy Renton, she was going to start her life over again, away from distraction. She would also change her appearance. So, concluding the paragraph, after Mr Birling sacked Eva from the infirmary she couldn't find another job, at this time she was probley depressed, which lead to her death.

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