AIC Characters 2 Flashcards
Mrs Birling
> ” (reproachfully) you’re not supposed to say such things”
> ” I’m very sorry but, she had only herself to blame”
> ” (angrily) I meant what I said”
> ” a gross impertinence… Naturally that was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case”
> ” she was claiming fine feelings and scruples absurd in a girl in her position”
Gerald
> ” unless Eric’s been up to something (nodding confidentially to Birling)
> ” I told you I was awfully busy at the works”
> ( distressed) sorry- I - well - I’ve suddenly realised… She’s dead”
> ” It was inevitable. She was young, pretty and warmhearted”
> ” but how do we know it’s the same girl?”
Inspector Goole
> ” after all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”
> ” (disconcerting habit of looking directly at the person he is addressing before speaking”)
> ”( harshly) but you can’t now. It’s too late. She’s dead”
> ” you see we have to share something, if nothing else we’ll share our guilt”
> ”( cutting in) and my trouble is I haven’t much time”
> ” taught in fire and blood and anguish”
Sheila
> ” I think that’s a mean thing to do. Perhaps that spoilt everything for her”
> ” (miserably) so I’m really responsible? “
> ”( laughing rather wildly) he’s giving us the rope, so that we’ll hang ourselves”
> ” why you fool, he knows”
> ” ( bitterly) I suppose we’re all nice people now”
> ” (flaring up) it’s you two who are being childish. Not facing up to the facts”
Eric
> ” (miserably) could I have a drink first?”
> ” why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?”
> ” I was in a state where a chap easily turns nasty”
> ” (shouting) the girls dead and we all helped kill her”
Mr Birling
> ” heavy looking and portentous”
> “every luxury… Unsinkable- absolutely unsinkable”
> “if you don’t come down sharply on these people”
> “(looks angrily to them)… Why you two had to go letting everything out beats me”
> “famous generation who know it all… Can’t even take a joke”
