Eric memory Flashcards
‘Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive’
Q1
You’d think a girl never had any clothes before she gets married. Women are potty about ‘em.’
Q2
‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices? And I don’t see why she should have been sacked’…’(rather angrily)’
Q3
‘She didn’t want to go in but that - well, I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty - and I threatened to make a row’
Q4
‘I wasn’t in love with her or anything - but I liked her - she was pretty and a good sport-…treated me as if I were a kid’
Q5
‘Just used her for the end of a stupid, drunken evening, as if she were an animal, a thing and not a person. No you won’t forget’
Q6
‘(Nearly at breaking point) Then, you killed her. She came to you to protect me - and you turned her away…-my child - your own grandchild - you killed them’
Q7
After inspector leaves
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Eric laughs rather hysterically, pointing at him. (laughing) Oh - for God’s sake! What does it matter now whether they give you a knighthood’
Q8
“The money’s not the important thing. It’s what happened to the girl and what we all did to her that matters. And I still feel the same about it’
Q9
