An Inepectior calls Flashcards
Mr Birling before the inspector arrives quotes (13)
First Impressions:
- ‘Hard headed businessman’
- ‘Lower costs and higher prices’
- ‘A tremendous lot
Dramatic Irony:
- ‘The germans dont want war’
- ‘Silly little war scares’
-“ In for a time of steadily increasing prosperity”
Relationship with Family
- ‘Tell cook for me’
- ‘Authur you’re not supposed to say such things’
- ‘Her husband’s social superior’
- ‘Clothes mean something quite different to women’
- ‘Just keep quiet Eric’
- ‘Just the kind of son in law I always wanted’
-“ Lord mayor two years ago”
Mr Birling When the inspector arrives quotes (6)
Initial reaction:
- ‘Some trouble about a warrent’
- ‘I know the brumley poilce officers pretty well’
Attitude changes:
- ‘With a touch of impatience’
- ‘I don’t like that tone’
Involvement in Eva Smiths death:
- ‘Duty to keep costs down’
- ‘She had a lot to say far to much she had to go’
Mr Birling After the inspector left and when they find out the inspector wasn’t real quotes (6)
After the inspector left:
- ‘You’re the one i blame for this’
- ‘Theres every excuse for what your mother and I did’
- ‘There’ll be a public scandal’
When they find out the inspector wasn’t real:
- ‘Smiles at them all’
- ‘Gerald have a drink’
- ‘It frightens me too’
Gerald Quotes before the inspector arrived (9)
Opening stage directions/ first impressions
• “easy well bred young man about town”
• “I was awfully busy at the works”
•Pink and intimate “brighter and harder”
Family dynamic / Relationship with Mr B
• Your engagement means a tremendous lot to me
• Just the kind of son in law i always wanted
- Lower costs and higher prices
Relationship with Shelia
• Is it the one you wanted me to have
• At the works
• For your benefit
Gerald When inspector arrives / interrogations (12)
Reaction to inspector and Mr B interrogation
• ‘Any particular reason why I shouldn’t see this girls photograph’
• ‘They’d all be broke if i know them’
• “You couldn’t have done anything else
Own interrogation Selfish
• startled what?
• why should i have known her
• Now listen darling
• I think miss Birling ought to be excused
Seperate mini paragraph
• I don’t come into suicide business
Claims Good intentions
• I asked her questions about herself
• I was sorry for her
- “for a drink
-“ Knew it couldn’t last”
Gerald quotes when the inspector leaves / finds out he’s not real (6)
When the inspector leaves
• I met a police sergeant I know down the road … we’ve been had
-“ but it is a fact”
• no there isn’t look at it
When they find out the inspector wasn’t real
• smiling thanks i think i could do with one now
• what about this ring
• it frightens me
Sheila Before the Inspector arrived quotes (7)
Opening Stage Directions/First impressions
- “A pretty girl in her early twenties,very pleased with life and very excited”
- Early twenties
- Is it the one you wanted me to have
- Sorry daddy actually I was listening
Family Dynamic
- You’re a pretty fortunate man young man too Gerald
- Lower costs and higher prices
- The things you girls pick up these days
Sheila quotes when the inspector arrives (7)
Reaction to the inspectors news
- And i’v been so happy tonight
- I’ll never ever do it again
Her interrogation
- I felt rotten about it then and i feel a lot worse about it now
- She had a lot to say
Geralds interrogation (2 para.)
- Wonderful fairy prince
- I dont dislike you as i did half an hour ago, Gerald- I rather respect you more than i’v ever done before
Mr B interrogation
- But thes girls arent just cheap labour
Sheila quotes when the inspector leaves and when they find out the inspector wasn’t real
When the inspector leaves
- I’m ashamed of it
- Your beginning all over again to pretwnd nothing much has happened
When they find out the inspector wasnt real
- That’s just what I feel Eric
- (Bitterly) I suppose we are all nice people now
- Fire blood and anguish
Eric Quotes Before the inspector arrives (8)
First Impressions
- Half shy half assertive
- What about war
- Drink pretty hard/ you’re squiffy
Family Dynamic
- Good old Sheila ! Chump!
- Just keep quiet Eric Started telling stories
- Just the kind of son in law I always wanted
Eric Quotes Reaction to inspectors news/ Own interogation (5)
- My God
- Dad, a man has to look after himself
- Famous taunt of wome of the town
- You’re not the type of father a chap can go to..
- You don’t understand anything
Eric Quotes When the inspector leaves/ When the inspector isn’t real (4)
What the inspector leaves
- You’re the one i blame for this
When they find the inspector isn’t real
- The girls still dead snf we all helped to kill her
- You lot may be letting yourself out nicely, but I can’t
- It frightens me too
Mrs Birling quotes Before the inspector arrives (4)
Opening stage directions/ First impressions
- A rather cold woman and her husbands social superior
- Arthur you’re not supposed to say such things
- When you’re married yuo’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business
Family Dynamic
- What an expression Sheila
Mrs Birling quotes Before the inspector arrives (5)
Opening stage directions/ First impressions
- A rather cold woman and her husbands social superior
- Arthur you’re not supposed to say such things
- When you’re married yuo’ll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business
- Important
Family Dynamic
- What an expression Sheila
Mrs Birling quotes when the inspector arrives (7)
Initial reaction
- Smiling social good evening inspector
Attitude changes
- Please don’t contradict me like that
- My husban was lord mayor only two years ago
Envolvement with Eva Smith/ Interrogation
- I used my influence to have it refused
- She only had herself to blame
- Girl of that sort
- No of course not
