How Priestley presents Eva Smith, and how the character develops across the text: the unseen victim who stands for the working class.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'a lively good-looking girl', 'She was very pretty', 'Burnt her inside out', 'One Eva Smith has gone', 'millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths'.
Eva as an unseen character who stands for the working class, and her names (Smith, Renton).
For Edexcel's essay on this text, link each point to its context and the writer's purpose, which earn as many marks as knowledge of the text (16 of 40); language analysis earns no marks there.
