An Inspector Calls Flashcards

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“A Hard-headed Practical Man of Business”

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Arthur Birling

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“You’re Not the Kind of Father a Chap Can Go to When He’s in Trouble”

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Eric Birling

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“You Mustn’t Try to Build Up a Kind of Wall Between us and this Girl. If You do, then the Inspector Will Just Break it Down.”

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Sheila Birling

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“I Didn’t Install Her there so that I Could Make Love to Her. I Made Her Go to Morgan Terrace Because I Felt Sorry For Her.”

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Gerald Croft

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5
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“But Each of You Helped to Kill Her”

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Inspector Goole

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6
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“It Would be Much Better if Sheila Didn’t Listen to this Story at All”

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Sybil Birling

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“Two Hours Ago a Young Woman Died in the Infirmary”

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Inspector Goole

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8
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“I Couldn’t be Sorry For Her”

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Sheila Birling

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9
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“We Often do on the Young Ones”

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Inspector Goole

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10
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“If We Were Responsible For Everything that Happened to Everybody We’d Had Anything to do with, it Would be Very Awkward”

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Arthur Birling

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11
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“We Don’t Live Alone. We Are Members of One Body. We Are Responsible for Each Other.”

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Inspector Goole

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12
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“A Piece of Gross Impertinence”

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Sybil Birling

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13
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“You Killed Her - and the Child She’d Have Had too - My Child”

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Eric Birling

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14
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“I’m Sorry, Daddy. Actually I was Listening.”

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Sheila Birling

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15
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“It’s Better to Ask for the Earth than to Take it”

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Inspector Goole

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16
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“I Didn’t Even Remember - that’s the Hellish Thing”

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Eric Birling

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17
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“Is it the One You Wanted Me to Have?”

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Sheila Birling

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18
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“We’ve Got No Proof it was the Same Photograph and Therefore No Proof it was the Same Girl”

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Gerald Croft

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19
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“I’d Been in a Bad Temper Anyhow”

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Sheila Birling

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20
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“Everything’s All Right Now Sheila. What About this Ring?”

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Gerald Croft

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21
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“Public Men, Mr Birling Have Responsibilities as Well as Privileges”

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Inspector Goole

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22
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“I Understand a Lot of Things Now I Didn’t Understand Before”

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Arthur Birling

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23
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“Yes - Except for All last Summer, When You Never Came Near Me, and I Wondered What Had Happened to You”

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Sheila Birling

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24
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“you Don’t Understand Anything. You Never Did.”

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Eric Birling

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25
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“For Lower Costs and Higher Prices”

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Arthur Birling

26
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“Mother, I Think that it was Cruel and Vile”

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Sheila Birling

27
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“My God - I’m Not Likely to Forget”

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Eric Birling

28
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“Though Naturally I Don’t Know Anything About this Girl”

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Sybil Birling

29
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“I’m Waiting… To do My Duty”

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Inspector Goole

30
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“Clothes Mean Something Quite Different to a Woman”

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Arthur Birling

31
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“At Least I’m Trying to Tell the Truth”

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Sheila Birling

32
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“I was in that State When a Chap Easily Turns Nasty”

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Eric Birling

33
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“I’ll Give Thousands - Yes, Thousands”

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Arthur Birling

34
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“She Came to You for Help at a Time When No Woman Would Have Needed it More”

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Inspector Goole

35
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“But these Girls Aren’t Cheap Labour - they’re People”

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Sheila Birling

36
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“Nothing But Morbid Curiosity”

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Sybil Birling

37
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“The Fact Remains that I Did What I Did”

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Eric Birling

38
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“There Are Millions and Millions and Millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths Still Left With us”

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Inspector Goole

39
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“My God!… I’ve Suddenly Realised - Taken in Properly - that She’s Dead”

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Gerald Croft

40
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“You Have No Power to Make Me Change My Mind”

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Sybil Birling

41
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“Look Here, I’m Not Going to Have this, Inspector. You’ll Apologise at Once.”

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Arthur Birling

42
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“It’s a Favourite Haunt of the Women of the Town”

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Gerald Croft

43
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“As if a Girl of that Sort Would Refuse Money”

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Sybil Birling

44
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“We Helped to Kill Her”

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Eric Birling

45
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“The Germans Don’t Want War. Nobody Wants War.”

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Arthur Birling

46
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“After All, Y’know, We’re Respectable Citizens and Not Criminals”

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Gerald Croft

47
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“I’m Sorry She Should Have Come to Such a Horrible End. But I Accept No Blame For it at All.”

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Sybil Birling

48
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“The Point is You Don’t Seem to Have Learnt Anything”

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Sheila Birling

49
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“Suddenly I Felt I Just Had to Laugh”

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Eric Birling

50
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“She’d Told Me She’d Been Happier than She’d Ever Been Before”

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Gerald Croft

51
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“Girls of that Class”

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Sybil Birling

52
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“You’re the One I Blame For this”

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Arthur Birling

53
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“I Don’t Come into this Suicide Business”

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Gerald Croft

54
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“That - I Consider - is a Trifle Impertinent Inspector”

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Sybil Birling

55
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“No, Not Really it Was My Own Fault”

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Sheila Birling

56
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“But Your Partly to Blame Just as Your Father is”

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Inspector Goole

57
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“She Was Young and Pretty and Warm-hearted and Intensely Grateful. I Became at Once the Most Important Person in Her Life.”

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Gerald Croft

58
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“Unsinkable, Absolutely Unsinkable”

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Arthur Birling

59
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“You Lot May be Letting Yourselves Out Nicely”

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Eric Birling

60
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“You Couldn’t Have Done Anything Else”

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Gerald Croft

61
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“Arthur You’re Not Supposed to Say Such Things”

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Sybil Birling