Gerald Flashcards
Stage directions
“Gerald Croft is…”
“Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town.”
“I don’t pretend…”
1
'’I don’t pretend to know much about it.’’
Sheila: be careful
‘‘Oh - I…’’
1
'’Oh - I will, I will’’
'’You seem to be…’’
1
'’You seem to be a nice well-behaved family’’
“You couldn’t have…”
1
“You couldn’t have done anything else”
“I know we’d have…”
1
“I know we’d have done the same thing”
Perhaps what Priestley is telling us is that some of the indifference to the suffering of the working class poor on the part of the wealthy upper class is due to lack of interaction and that if they were to interact personally with these people they would see their common humanity and thus instil in them a desire to see a fairer, more just and humane society.
“I’ve never known…”
1
“I’ve never known an Eva Smith”
wrong
didn’t really know Eva, not like he knew Sheila.
therefore doesn’t know any working class woman –> separation of classes, no rich and poor
“we’re respectable…”
1
“we’re respectable citizens and not criminals”
“I don’t come…”
1
“I don’t come into this suicide business”
“It’s bound to be…”
Inspector ‘and you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?’.
2
“It’s bound to be unpleasant and disturbing”
“Mrs Birling, the inspector…”
2
“Mrs Birling, the inspector knows all that. And I don’t think it’s a very good idea to remind him”
“sorry - I - well I’ve…”
2
“sorry - I - well i’ve suddenly realised - taken it in properly - that she’s dead”
'’I hate those…’’
2
'’I hate those hard-eyed, dough-faced women’’
“she looked…”
2
“she looked young and fresh and charming and altogether out of place down here”
“a glance that…”
2
“a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help”
