AIC - Inspector Goole

Question 1

invertive detective structure

Answer 1

“each of you helped to kill her”

Question 2

• anadiplosis
• The inspector’s investigation focuses of the surprising links between different events and people
• the content of these statements is INEXTRICABLY connected and leads on from one another

Answer 2

“Because what happened to her then may

have determined what happened to her

afterwards, and what happened to her

afterwards may have driven her to suicide”

Question 3

• Mesterious character: Enigmatic
• We learn about what the inspector is not rather than what he is

Answer 3

“I don’t play golf”

“I never take offence”

Question 4

Supernatural

Answer 4

Goole = Goul (Ghost / Spirit)
IG haunts the Birlings about their roles in Eva’s death

Question 5

knows too much - Prescient

imposter?

Answer 5

Eva only died two hours ago but he knows so much

The inspector reads her letter and a “sort of diary”

Question 6

God-like / moralistic / other-worldly

Answer 6

“Fire and blood and anguish”

• allusion to the biblical description of hell (A blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth)

Question 7

what did Sewell Stoke say in his 1947 ‘Theatre Arts’ Article? (Panache and Port Wine)

Answer 7

“Then the bell rings and in comes Inspector Goole (Inspector Priestley to be more exact) “