Class/Gerald Croft Flashcards
1
Q
“It wasn’t disgusting”
A
Gerald refutes Mrs Birling’s remark about his relationship with Eva being disgusting. Priestley does this to, perhaps, separate Gerald from the older-generation of characters and their traditional classist views.
2
Q
“Knew it couldn’t last”
A
It wasn’t Gerald’s ending of funding that impacted Eva, but rather the end of a caring and intimate relationship, which pushed her over the edge and onto suicide as this hurt her emotionally. This sudden ending of their relationship is evidenced through Gerald dropping Eva like a possession as she “knew it couldn’t last”, due to her lower-class origins
