About The Birlings

The play opens with the engagement celebration of Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft. The party takes place in the dining room of the bridal parents Arthur and Sybil BirlingLs house close to Brumley. The Birling family is very happy looking forward unto this marriage as a most ideal financial connection to the business rival Croft.
The celebrations are interrupted by the appearance of inspector Goole , who enters and confronts the participants with the unpleasant suicide of a young woman named Eva Smith. He tells that Eva Smith drank some disinfectant and died that early night in the infirmary . It becomes clear that there must be a connection between Eva Smith and the Birlings.
Eva worked in the Birling factory two years ago. She got the boot for being one of the ringleaders postulating a pay rise for the workers. The conversation indicates that every member of the party had some influence on Eva SmithLs life and way of death . Mr. Birling fired Eva Smith , Sheila complained abou...