characters

Question 1

sybil birling

Answer 1

arthur’s wife and social superior. she’s obsessed with etiquette and her social status

Question 2

arthur birling

Answer 2

a successful business man who is well respected in Burmley. he owns a factory and is head of the birling family

Question 3

gerald croft

Answer 3

is an upper class business man. he is about 30 and is engaged to shelia

Question 4

eric birling

Answer 4

is the birlings son he is a secret alcoholic who is going to inherit his father’s business

Question 5

sheila birling

Answer 5

is the birlings daughter. she’s in her early 20s and is engaged to gerald

Question 6

inspector goole

Answer 6

is a mysterious man who claims to be a police inspector. he’s investigating the death of eva smith

Question 7

eva smith / daisy renton

Answer 7

is the victim of the play. we never see her. she might be lots of different girls. she might not even be dead

Question 8

edna

Answer 8

the birlings parlour maid. she doesn’t have many lines, but she welcomes the inspector into the house and she’s the only working class woman on stage