Eric Flashcards
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“In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”
Being nice about there pay
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest
possible prices”
Nowhere else to work
“it isn’t as if you can go and work somewhere else.”
Feels sry for eva smith
“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough
luck.”
Showing sympathy to ghe girl
“I’d have let her stay”
He knew he could be horrid and nasty
“Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I
threatened to make a row”
To drunk to remember anything
And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the
hellish thing.”
Wat he thought of eva
“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty
and a good sport-”
Showing that he is mature
“she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In
a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as
she was.”
Eric and his dads lack of relationship
“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble-
that’s why.”
Arguing with his mum
“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-”
Sarcasm much
“He was our police inspector all right”
Feels bad
“(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and
that’s what matters-”
