An Inspector Calls

Question 1

until the inspector’s arrival, the lighting should be pink and intimate

with the Inspector’s arrival, lighting goesw ‘brighter and harder’

Answer 1

Pink and intimate
- Shows them in rose tined glasses and unaware of whats to come and the lower class world

Inspector
- seems to shine a flashlight onto them, inspecting/bringing it to light

harder
-honesty and stuff

Question 2

heavily comfortable, but not cozy and homelike

Answer 2

Shows that they are rich, but family relationships are strained, not a homelike atnmoshere

Question 3

Arthur Birling is a heavy- looking, rather portentious man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincal in his speech

Answer 3

Provincial
- Shows that he is not born of upper-middle class

Is part of the older generation

Portentous
- Tries to prove that he is of higher class than he is

Question 4

a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior

Answer 4

Social superior
- Ironic
- Foreshadows her asshat behaviour

Question 5

are rather pleased with themselves

Answer 5

Shows how the upper class act
How oblivious they are
Constrast heavily to the end of the play
Foreshadows

Question 6

Arthur , you’re not supposed to say such things

Answer 6

Mrs Birling scolds her husband, since she is born into money
Shows that Mr Birling is of lower class, since you were not supposed to praise
them

Question 7

Except for all last summer, when you never came near me

Answer 7

Foreshadowing Gerald’s affair
Sheila has her doubts, but hides them
First crack in their perfect relationship

Question 8

When you’re maried you’ll realize that men with important work to do sometimes spend all their time and energy on their buisness

Question 9

I don’t know - really. Suddenly I felt I just had to laugh

Answer 9

Highlights Eric’s immaturness and how he does not belong in the upper class social circle

Question 10

What an expression Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days!

Question 11

You’re just the kind on son-in-law I always wanted

Answer 11

Shows how disant Eric is from his own family

Question 12

Perhaps we may look fowar to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices.

Question 13

(rather noisily) All the best! She’s got a nasty temper sometimes – but she’s not bad really. Good old
Sheila!

Question 14

Oh – Gerald – you’ve got it – is it the one you wanted me to have?

Answer 14

You wanted - shows how Shelia had no choice or opinion
Women were often used as assecories

Question 15

Look – mummy – isn’t it a beauty?

Answer 15

Sounds childish and seeks her mothers aproval

Question 16

I think it’s perfect. Now I really feel engaged.

Answer 16

Shelia is rather materialistic and childish,

Question 17

I’ll never let it go out of my sight for an instant.

Question 18

I’m sorry, daddy. Actually I was listening.

Question 19

You’ve a lot to learn yet. And I’m taking as a hard headed, practical man of
business.

Question 20

unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.

Question 21

there’s a fair chance that I might find my way into the
next honours list. Just a knighthood, of course.

Question 22

I don’t want to lecture you two young fellows again.

Question 23

as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense

Question 24

I thought you must be. I was an alderman for years – and lord mayor two years ago –

Question 25

(involuntarily) My god!

Question 26

Yes, yes. Horrid business.

Question 27

(showing annoyance) Any particular reason why I shouldn't see this girl's photograph, inspector?

Question 28

obviously it has nothing whatever to do with the wretched girl's suicide.

Question 29

A chain of events.

Question 30

Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?

Question 31

Pretty?

Question 32

But these girls aren't cheap labour – they're people.

Question 33

We were having a nice family celebration tonight. And a nasty mess you've made of it now, haven't you?

Question 34

:After all, y'know, we're respectable citizens and not criminals. Inspector: Sometimes there isn't much difference as you think. Often , if it was left to me, I wouldn't know where to draw the line.

Question 35

Yes. We can keep it from him. Sheila: (laughs rather hysterically) why – you fool – he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don't know yet. You'll see. You'll see.

Question 36

She's had a long exciting and tiring day

Question 37

and you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?

Question 38

we often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable.

Question 39

Girls of that class--

Answer 39

Girls - views lower class women as helpless and immature that class - condasending, looking down trying to generalise them, removing their induviduality

Question 40

you mustn't try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl.

Answer 40

Metaphor

Question 41

that – I consider – is a trifle impertinent, inspector.

Question 42

I don't know. Perhaps it's because impertinent is such a silly word.

Answer 42

Starts rebelling againt her mmother and upper class society

Question 43

it would be much better if sheila didn't listen to this story at all

Question 44

You were the wonderful fairy prince. You must have adored it, gerald.

Answer 44

Sarcastic

Question 45

I don't dislike you as I did half an hour ago, gerald. In fact, in some odd way, I rather respect you more than I've ever done before.

Question 46

Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.

Question 47

a prominent member – of the Brumley Women's Charity Organization, aren't you?

Question 48

mother, I think it was cruel and vile

Question 49

I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty – and I threatened to make a row

Question 50

Because you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he's in trouble – that's why.

Question 51

Then – you killed her. She came to you to protect me – and you turned her away – yes, and you killed her – and the child she'd have had too – my child – your own grandchild – you killed them both – damn you, damn you

Question 52

as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.

Question 53

( unhappily) Look, Inspector – I'd give thousands – yes, thousands

Question 54

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they well be taught it in fire and bloody and anguish.

Question 55

You! You don't seem to care about anything. But I care. I was almost certain for a knighthood in the next Honours List-

Question 56

This makes a difference, y'know. In fact, it makes all the difference.

Question 57

I was the only one of you who didn't give in to him.

Question 58

I want to get out of this. It frightens me the way you talk.

Question 59

Everything's all right now, Sheila. (Holds up the ring.) What about this ring?

Question 60

Now look at the pair of them – the famous younger generation who know it all.