J.B.Priestley’s play, An Inspector Calls - Eva Smith's Diary

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Dear Diary This month had started off good as I went on holiday with some of my friends to Brighton. Tracey loved it and we didn't want to leave. When we got back life went downhill. When we got back to Mr. Birling's factory we asked for a pay rise as we spent most of our money on the holiday. The reason we asked far a rise was that we need some money to get food and other things. It was actually Tracey's idea to ask far a pay rise from twenty-two and six to twenty five shillings a week. But Mr. Birling said no. We went on strike after we wouldn't get the pay rise. Dear Diary ========== This has been the worse month ever me and the girls had been sacked after a few weeks we'd been on strike it was only the ringleaders who got sacked; Me Tracey Jane Amy and Michelle. And we now don't have any money. I'm now looking for a job and as I have no parents, I have no one to fall back on financially and I don't want to go back to the workhouse. I am really scared now I'm not sure I'm going to have enough money to buy clothes and food. I don't have many friends apart from Tracey. Dear Diary Last month was hell with no income I've now found a job at millwards the great clothes shop. I've got a great job but it was a spot of luck because of the amount of influenza about, two workers became ill so I applied and now I have a job at last YES! It is exciting there. They have rich customers, which means better pay I think? But it doesn't matter, as it's a great place to work. Dear Diary January had been a good month but today Miss Sheila Birling complained about me, at least I think it's her as she was the only customer to go into the manager's office. I think she complained that I laughed at her when she tried on the most ridiculous dress. She looked a picture in it she looked so funny in it that's why I laughing with the other assistant my friend Tracey. Dear Diary February was full of ups and downs. It started with a down when Millwards sacked me when they took the side of the customer not me. But now I've changed my name from Eva Smith to Daisy Renton. The reason I did it was that it might give me new people to meet as Eva Smith was a troublemaker but Daisy Renton will be kind-hearted and

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J.B.Priestley’s play, An Inspector Calls - Eva Smith's Diary

Inspector Goole in J.B.Priestley’s play, An Inspector Calls

Eva Smith in An Inspector Calls

Priestly's Presentation of the Inspector as an Unusual Police Man in Act 1

Priestley's use of dramatic techniques to create tension in An Inspector Calls

The Thriller Like Suspense in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley

Priestley's Social Message in An Inspector Calls

The Death of Eva Smith in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley

Automobile Dependency and the Working Poor

Catcher in the Rye

Capitalism on Wages and Income

The Suicide of Eva Smith in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley

An Inspector Calls by John Boynton Priestley

Personal Narrative: My Job as a Waitress in a Chinese Restaurant

Education and Teaching - No Saturday Classes for Public Schools

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