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).
OCR's question on this text has two parts on the same text. Part (a), 20 marks, compares a printed extract from it with an unseen extract of the same genre, and weights your response (AO1) and context (AO3) twice as heavily as language analysis (AO2), where context means the social and cultural situations you can infer from the two extracts and their introductions; an answer on only one of the two extracts cannot go above Level 3. Part (b), 20 marks, explores another moment in the same text from memory, with response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2) equally weighted and no marks for context. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the part it is for.
