RECOUNT – What has happened in the book until now (end of Act II)?

At the beginning of the story, the Birling family is celebrating the engagement of Sheila, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Birling, to Gerald Croft. Then, the doorbell rings and Inspector Goole enters the dining room of the Birling family. He tells them the story of a young girl called Eva Smith who decided to commit suicide. She died just two hours ago because she swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. None of the members of the family seems to know her until the Inspector tells them how they met her in the past and shows them a photo of her. As he tells them more and more about the story of the girl, the reader finds out what happened to Eva because of what the members of the Birling family and Gerald did to her before she decided to kill herself.

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