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START: I’d gone in to try something on....

Sheila Birling

An Inspector Calls

J.B. Priestley

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
The home of the Birling family, England, 1912
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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START: I’d gone in to try something on. It was an idea of my own--mother had been against it, and so had the assistant--but I insisted. As soon as I tried it on, I knew they’d been right.
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END: If she’d been some miserable plain little creature, I don’t suppose I’d have done it. But she was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself. I couldn’t be sorry for her.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Priestley, J.B. An Inspector Calls and Other Plays. Penguin Modern Classics, London. 2000, pp. 180-1.

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