Eric quotes

Question 1

1)

Answer 1

“Want another glass of port?
Yes please. (takes decanter and helps himself)”

Question 2

2)

Answer 2

“(eagerly) Yes, I remember - (but he checks himself)”

Question 3

3)

Answer 3

“(laughs hysterically, pointing at him)
(laughing) Oh - for God’s sake! What does it matter now whether they give you a knighthood or not”?

Question 4

4)

Answer 4

“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”

Question 5

5)

Answer 5

“You’re beginning to pretend now that nothings really happened at all. And I can’t see it like that. The girl’s still dead, isn’t she”?

Question 6

6)

Answer 6

“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out”

Question 7

7)

Answer 7

“I didn’t even remember - that’s the hellish thing”

Question 8

8)

Answer 8

“You (Mrs Birling) don’t understand anything. You never did.”

Question 9

9)

Answer 9

stage directions - “In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”

Question 10

10)

Answer 10

Eric responds “involuntarily” to Eva Smith’s suicide

Question 11

11)

Answer 11

(Suddenly bursting out) “Look here, I’ve had enough of this”

Question 12

12)

Answer 12

[to Mrs Birling] “But don’t forget I’m ashamed of you as well”

Question 13

13)

Answer 13

“He was our police inspector all right”

Question 14

14)

Answer 14

(shouting) “And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her - “