How Priestley presents Sheila, and how the character develops across the text: from privileged daughter to a young woman who accepts responsibility.
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: 'very pleased with life and rather excited', 'But these girls aren't cheap labour', 'I'll never, never do it again to anybody', 'build up a kind of wall between us and that girl', 'Why - you fool - he knows', 'the wonderful Fairy Prince', 'I suppose we're all nice people now', 'It frightens me the way you talk'.
Her change from 'Mummy' to independence, and the ring as a symbol.
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.
