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).
Eduqas's essay on this text marks your response and your analysis of language, form and structure, not context: use context only where it helps an interpretation, and treat the printed extract as a starting point for an essay on the whole play.
