Explore Eva Smith’s encounters with each of the members of the Birling family and Gerald. Show how J. B. Priestley uses these encounters to expose society’s attitudes to working class girls like Eva. In ‘An Inspector Calls’, J. B. Priestley reveals the flaws of society and the darker side of capitalism as well as the bias of class and social status. As a firm believer in the concepts of socialism, he uses this …showed first 75 words of 4734 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4734 total…lesson’. Throughout the play we get a sense of where his sympathies lie but it is only in his final speech that we get an explicit statement of his philosophies. ‘One Eva Smith is gone – but there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives and what we think and say and do.’