An Inspector Calls Flashcards
MR BIRLING - CHARACTER
‘I can’t accept any responsibility’
‘Lower costs and higher prices’
‘hysterical young fool’
‘you all helped kill her’(mocking)
‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
‘not only something to make them prettier’
MRS BIRLING - CHARACTER
‘as if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’
‘she only had herself to blame’
‘behaving like a hysterical child.’
‘you’ll realize that men with important
work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business’
GERALD - CHARACTER
‘Hear hear!’
‘I was sorry for her’
‘Did we? Who says so?’
‘Don’t say anything to the Inspector, we can keep it from him’
‘I hate those hard-eyed, doe-faced women.’
ERIC - CHARACTER
‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for higher prices.’
‘just keep quiet Eric, and don’t get excited’ (Mr Birling)
(to mrs birling), ‘you killed them both’
‘I insisted on giving enough money to keep her going’
‘I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty.’
SHEILA - CHARACTER
‘Oh I wish you hadn’t told me’
‘look mummy, isn’t it a beauty?’
‘these girls aren’t cheap labour-their people.’
‘he’s giving us the rope so that we’ll hang ourselves’
‘So I’m really responsible?’
THE INSPECTOR - CHARACTER
‘We don’t live alone, we are members of one body’
‘Don’t stammer and yammer again at me man.’
‘each of you helped kill her. Remember that.’
‘Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.’
‘there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths left with us.’
‘fire and blood and anguish’
EVA SMITH - CHARACTER
‘I couldn’t remember her name or when she lived.’
‘she wouldn’t take any more’ (money)
‘She’d had a lot to say - far too much, so she had to go.’
‘I became at once the most important person in her life.’
EDNA - CHARACTER
‘Edna’ll answer it’
‘Yes ma’am’
