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Summary of Act 1. Setting the scene, the play opens with an over-the-top dinner at the home of the Birlings. The family are dressed for dinner and the room is highly-decorated. This immediately highlights them as an upper-middle-class family.
Do you know what happened to this girl after she left my works? Inspector: Yes. She was out of work for the next two months. Both her parents were dead, so that she'd no home to go back to.
A summary of Act One in J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of An Inspector Calls and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
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An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley centres on Inspector Goole’s interrogation of the Birling family, following the death of a young girl called Eva Smith. Are they to blame?
The scene is set one evening in the spring of 1912 in the dining room of the Birlings’ house in Brumley, an “industrial city in the North Midlands” of England. Priestley specifies that the room has “good solid furniture” and is “heavily comfortable, but not cozy and homelike.”
Do you know what happened to this girl after she left my works? Inspector: Yes. She was out of work for the next two months. Both her parents were dead so that she'd have no home to go back to.
