A full summary of the entire. Inspector calls as quickly as I possibly can. Okay, so we start in Act 1, the dining room of the Burlings' household, very pompous, the epitome of typical catharsis. They're celebrating Sheila and Gerald's engagement.
Mr. Burling does a speech where he declares that war is fiddlesticks and the Titanic is unsinkable. Dramatic irony. Then an inspector arrives, telling the Burlings that a girl has died from drinking disinfectant. He then shows the photos to Mr. Burling which he doesn't recognise and then realises he sacked this girl for asking for higher wages.
The same happens to Sheila, she's shown a photo and then she then realises she got this girl sacked from Millwoods, a shop she frequently shops at, for looking at her in a way that she didn't like. Then Gerald starts realising the severity of the inspector and the power he holds so begs Sheila not to say any more. Sheila tells him that he already knows everything so basically just a shut up. Then Gerald gets investigated, he's shown the photo which he then declares her as Daisy Brenton, formerly known as Eva Smith to the rest of us.
He then admits to having an affair with her over the summer while he told Sheila a lie. Interestingly he seems remorseful at first but then he retreats back into his capitalist ways. Then arguably one of the most cold characters in the whole play is interrogated for good old Mrs Berlin.
It was revealed that she refused to help Eva slash Daisy who came to her women's organisation for help because she was pregnant. She claims over and over again that it's the father's responsibility to look after the child, basically not hers. And guess who's the father?
Dun, dun, dun. Her precious drunken son, Eric. To which she also denies that he's a drunk.
Then finally, Eric is interrogated. It comes out that he did get Eva pregnant and he did steal money from Mr. Burling to help her. Mrs. Burling, of course, is in denial.
Then at this point Gerald's already left and the inspector does his final speech about collective responsibility, we are members of one body, really really important. Then when Gerald does come back after the inspector's left he says that he'd been speaking around and he understood that the inspector is not real. Mr Burling then called up the police and it was confirmed that he wasn't an inspector there.
Mr Burling, Mrs Burling and Gerald are extremely relieved as there's going to be no public scandal now. Eric and Sheila are still distraught as The rest of them haven't got the point. They still did what they did to the girl.
Then we return back to the cyclical structure where they get a call saying an inspector is going to arrive. But the question is, who do you think was the most responsible?