Eva Smith lead a very traumatic adulthood because of the constant catastrophes she has encountered. There have been a number of people who have contributed to Eva Smiths emotionally affected life up to the point where she committed suicide.
             Arthur Birling was a rich man and only seemed to care about his family and how well his business was
             progressing, in other words how much money he was earning. He didn't care about any of his workers, and didn't know them at all, as it quotes in the book, 'I have a couple of hundred workers under me, who keep changing' (Act 1, page 12, line 16.) Therefor this shows that there was no personal relationship with Arthur Birling and Eva Smith until after the strike. Arthur Birling states that all the workers had just come back from their holidays and had become very restless, and then just decided to demand for a pay rise or they would go on strike. Of course he denied it, so all the workers wouldn't come back. After a while they were all begging to come back because they were becoming poor, so Arthur Birling let them all back and fired the ringleaders, one of whom, Eva Smith. Eva Smith was now out of work for two months, and was earning no money. She hadn't any savings so she became half starved. Also both her parents were dead so they couldn't offer her help. This may be another reason why she committed suicide, maybe because her parents were dead also. She had few friends who couldn't help her, and she was feeling very upset and ill. So to round up the events linked between Arthur Birling and Eva Smith, I would say that even though the fired her, it isn't the end of the world, and she is cable of finding another job as we find out later.
             Sheila Birling, the daughter of Arthur Birling, understands the effect she had on Eva Smith. Whilst one day
             at Milwards, Sheila was experimenting with some dresses and hats, and she new very well they didn't suit her so she asked Miss. Francis how it should ...