An inspector calls centres around The Birlings, a family of four, and Gerald Croft. There is Mr Arthur Birling, a heavy-looking man in his early fifties who incessantly speaks about work. There is Sheila Birling who is a pretty girl in her early twenties who is very pleased with life and is engaged to Gerald. There is Eric who is also in his early twenties and who is half shy, half assertive. Gerald Croft is an attractive thirty-year-old man who is the easy, well bred man-about-town. But this essay is about the cold fifty-year-old Mrs Birling and her dramatic significance of her in "An Inspector Calls"

The play starts with the five of them finishing dinner and talking. An inspector calls round and tells them that a young girl had just died at the infirmary after drinking a great deal of strong disinfectant. He then starts questioning them...