Characters

Question 1

Gerald Croft

Answer 1

• Attractive chap,about thirty
• “Rather too manly to be a dandy”
• “Easy well-brad man about town”

Question 2

Sheila Birling

Answer 2

• “Pretty girl in her early twenties”
• “Very pleased with life”
• gets excited quickly, especially because she is engaged.

Question 3

Mr Arthur Birling

Answer 3

• “Heavy looking”
• “Rather portentous”
• middle fifties
• provincial in speech

Question 4

Mrs Sybil Birling

Answer 4

• “A rather cold woman”
• “Husbands social superior”
• middle fifties

Question 5

Eric Birling

Answer 5

• “Not quite at ease”
• “Half shy, half assertive”
• in his early twenties