Who do you Think is to Blame for the Death of Eva Smith

Eva died two hours before the inspector came. She died because she drank a separate of strong disinfectant which burnt her inside out. Inspector Goole goes to the birls house to give individually one of them and place responsibility on them. Though the inspector does not tell us it, it is quite obvious that he is in that respect not to find the main culprit but sooner he is there to make the birls see through somebodies eyes of the Lower manikin and feel some responsibility.Each and every one of them, Mr birle, Sheila, Gerald, Mrs circumvolve and Eric, all played a blow up in Evas death and the inspector wants them to realise this and accept responsibility. Mr Birling holds the big responsibility of starting signal the whole thing, and he was the first to acidify Eva away. Eva Smith was working at the Works which Mr Birling owned. She had been working in one of the machine shops for over year and she was a good worker. She was active to be promoted to a leading operato r which was a person who was the head of a small group of girls.When Eva and everyone else came tooshie from the August holidays they were all restless and asked for a pay rise. However Mr Birling refused their offer saying he couldnt even consider it. Eva and all of the other girls decided to go on strike which didnt last long. The pitiful affair was over after a week or two. Mr Birling let everyone back apart from the ring-leaders, who started all of the trouble. Unfortunately Eva was one of the ring-leaders and like the rest, she was fired. This was the start of the s forthwithfall ball effect of takes that drove Eva towards killing herself and her unborn child.However Mr Birling refused to accept responsibility for his actions. Sheila was next to address Eva down, all because of her bad temper. After two months of barely surviving, after Mr Birling fired her, Eva found a job at a deck shop. This reduce store was Millwards, which happened to be one of Sheilas favourite(a) dress shops and Eva was very lucky to get a job there. Sheila went into Millwards to try on a dress which both the shop assistant and Mrs Birling were against. When Sheila tried on the dress she knew they were right because it didnt cause her and this adorn her in a bad mood.Eva and the assistant, Miss Francis, brought the dress up from the work room. Miss Francis asked something somewhat the dress and to face them Eva held up the dress as if she was wearing it and Sheila thought it suited her. When Sheila tried the dress on and saw it didnt suit her, she caught sight of Eva smiling to Miss Francis and Sheila interpreted Evas make a face wrongly. Sheila became infuriated and was very rude to them. She stormed off to the manager and told him that Eva had been very impertinent.She told the manager that if he didnt fire Eva she would never go near Millwards again and would persuade Mrs Birling to close the family account. This was the next event that let suicide persuade Eva. Howe ver Sheila sure responsibility for her actions and even grieved for Eva. After Sheila compelled Millwards to discharge Eva, Eva changed her comprise to Daisy Renton to start again. This is when Gerald stepped into her life and became one of the main people in her roller-coaster life. Gerald went to the Palace Hotel Bar in Brumley because the show in the Music Hall wasnt very bright.He first saw Daisy when she was wedged into a corner by Old Joe Meggarty, who was known as a notorious womaniser. Daisy saw Gerald spirit at her and gave him a look which was nothing less than a cry for help. Gerald told Mr Meggarty that the manager had a message for him. This freed Daisy from Mr Meggarty and his half-drunk and goggle-eyed stare. Gerald took Daisy out of the Palace Bar at once. He took her to the County Hotel and they talked. They met again two nights later, not accidently this time, and he let her move into his friends set of rooms while he was in Canada.He too gave her money to keep her going and visited her regularly. She soon became his mistress after he became the most primal person in her life. However in the first week of September Gerald had to go away on a business trip and he broke it off with Daisy before he go forth. Daisy was very raffish about it because she knew he didnt love her and would never unite her. However this did affect her a lap because once again her hopes had been risen, only to be put back down again. Quite rightly Gerald accepted responsibility and felt bad for his actions toward Daisy.The next person to meet and turn down Eva was Eris. Eris meet Eva in the same place Herald met her, the Palace Hotel Bar one night in November. He was there with a few friends and he had been there for a few hours so he was a act squiffy. He went over to Eva and began talking to her. He stood her a few drinks and by the time they left he was rather far gone. He insisted on going to her lodgings. However Eva refused to let him in which made Eric angry just as Sheila had been. He began to threaten her saying he would make a row which would get her kicked out of where she was staying.She reluctantly let him inside. He met her again about a two weeks later, but not by appointment and the events of before was very vague in Erics mind. Eric went theatre with her again but they talked for a bit this time. They met twice again and Eva told Eric that she was going to have a bungle and Eric was in a hell of a state about it and so was Eva. Eva didnt want to marry Eric so instead Eric gave her some money to keep her going for a while, until she refused to take any more than because she knew it was stolen.This put Eva into a very sticky situation because the money she had was not going to last her long and she was now going to have a baby to support as well. Eric wished that he could have done more and he accepted responsibility. However this did push Eva even further towards her end. Mrs Birling was the final person to turn Eva do wn and the one who finally pushed her over the edge. After running out of money, Eva decided to go to the Brumley womanhoods Charity for help. Eva was on her final straw and changed her name to Mrs Birling after Eric.Unfortunately for Eva the real Mrs Birling was the one who took her appeal. When Mrs Birling meet Eva and found out what she was calling herself, she thought it was a piece of consummate(a) impertinence and she soon became prejudice against Eva. Eva created a fake story so she didnt look as bad and was sure to get a claim. She told Mrs Birling that she had been married but her husband had abandoned her, leaving her with no money. However Mrs Birling began questioning her and Mrs Birling soon broke her. Eva told Mrs Birling about Eric, however she never revealed his name to Mrs Birling.Mr Birling didnt believe her, due to the fact that Eva used Mrs Birlings name which made Mrs Birling prejudice against her. Mrs Birling used her influence to get the charge to refuse Ev as claim. Eva was refused help and was turned down once again apart from this was the last time. Mrs Birling refused to accept responsibility because she feel shes did nothing wrong and only Eva had herself to blame. In oddment I feel everyone is equally responsible for the death of Eva Smith. Even if alone each thing each person did to Eva didnt affect her too greatly, together they caused the death of two people, Eva and her unborn child.The Birling family moldiness have driven Eva so far into depression that Eva believed that there was no point of her child macrocosm born and have to live the life she did. However it may seem obvious that it was the Birling family that was in general to blame for the death of Eva Smith, but if you look into the background of the novella it is actually the Birlings well-disposed class you need to blame. This is because people of the Middle word form in 1912 looked down on the Lower Class and treated them harshly just as they did with Eva. Mor eover I believe this is who J B hieratical is trying to blame but he has portrayed it through the Birling family.