Change In J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls

Sheila was brought up in a family who had continuously given her money and spoiled her with expensive presents and possessions. During her time growing up in such an environment and being introduced so abruptly to the inspector, Sheila is sheltered by her parents from the outside world of society. Priestly uses a mouthpiece, Inspector Goole, to expose Sheila resulting in a change in her character as well as to let her realise the treatment and discrimination between classes of different social standing. Priestly feels that by setting his play in 1912 and showing it to an after-war audience of 1945; they would be able to see the ignorance from the different classes that could have contributed in war.
At the beginning of the play, during the