An Inspector CallsAn Inspector CallsThe finale of An Inspector Calls brought cheers but most of all it brought about confusion. It was obvious this play wasn’t going to lay out a neat plot for the audience; it was going to be a play that stays in your mind for the next few days. The intriguing part of this play was, for once, everyone didn’t just wake up, bleary-eyed to give the cast a meaningless clap. When I looked around, I saw people I would have pegged for being gone before the lights had dimmed, actually paying attention, and even more surprising, struggling after the play to comprehend the meaning.
Inspector Goole’s role was clearly to make this family aware of the impact of seemingly trivial things they did in life. Sheila’s immediate reaction when she was at the store was to complain to the manager, but she realized how silly it was once Goole had pointed it out. Gerald and Eric saw messing around with “women of the town,” as they were kindly put, as merely a fun distraction, but Goole showed them how that led to pregnancy and how that can destroy a woman’s life. The husband and wife were so used to dismissing people in life that they didn’t think dismissing Eva Smith from a job and help, would matter anymore than anyone else they had brushed off. This was a family who simply acted with no conscience, and Goole was there to give them a conscience. Goole is right, “we are all responsible,” and this play served to teach their family, and the audience, a lesson. Every action we take in our lives is because of a choice we make, and we have to make sure those choices aren’t
The Family:
‡We are not a household.‡ We don“t belong to any household,‡ or, it will never happen.‡ We are just family members, a pair. Just like the rest of us. We have a place where anything might happen to us, but we are so busy in our lives that we can’t think about what’s going on outside of our bodies.
‡We only care about the things we care about, like getting you high,‡ or driving us to school or whatever.‡ Even in our worst situations, that’s not that important. If something seems more important than we thought it would, we should give it to it without asking much.
‡Let’s work it out,‡ and be ready to lose a kid or a baby.‡ You can just forget about that and forget about us for a much, much longer time.‡ Because, just do what you have to do and, when you have good judgment, we’ll be right.
‡We want to give back,‡ because we do care about so much, and, through our work, we have been able to share our love and take part in our successes so far. But we also care more about the things we want than what we can get from people. Why is a child important to you, and why are these things important to us? What is important about you, and exactly what needs to be done about it?
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