An Inspector Calls Flashcards
Quotes about the setting
“Pink and intimate”
“brighter and harder”
What does Mr Birling say to try and sound knowledgeable?
“It’ll make war impossible”
“Unsinkable, absoultely unsinkable”
“There’ll be peace and prosperity everywhere”
How does Mr Birling demine his children?
“Just let me finish Eric, you’ve a lot to learn yet”
“Look - you just keep out of this”
What quotes show that Mr Birling always puts business first and is a capitalist?
“For lower cost and higher prices”
“You’d think everybody has to look after everybody else as if we’re all mixed up together like bees in a hvie”
“I refused of course”
“If you dont’ come down on some of these people they’d be asking for the Earth”
“Well it’s my duty to keep labour costs down”
How is Sheila presented as subservient?
“When do I drink?”
“Is this the one you wanted me to have?”
How is Sheila shown to be accepting reponsibility?
“So I’m really responsible?”
“And if I could help her now I would”
How does Mr Birling not accept responsibility?
“Still I can’t accept responsibility”
How does Eric oppose his father?
“He could. He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out”
“It isn’t if you can’t go work somehwere else”
How is the Inspector introduced?
“Need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefullness”
How is Mrs Birling controlling of her children?
“What an expression Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days!”
“Now stop it you two”
How does Mrs Birling show she wants to protect her reputation?
“We’ll be glad to tell you anything you want, I don’ think we can be much help”
How does Gerald describe Eva Smith?
“She looked young, fresh and charming”
How does Gerald feel towards Eva Smith?
“I didn’t feel about her the way she felt about me”
How does Gerald think about the lower class?
“They’d all be broke if I knew them”
