Gerald

Question 1

Gerald is presented to attempt to exert control over shiela and sides with edwardian beliefes

Answer 1

-16) “I think Miss Birling ought to be excused”
-“She’s had a long, exciting and tiring day… and now she’s obviously had about as much as she can stand’

-17) “Everythings alright now shiela” (holds up the ring)

Question 2

Gerald is presented to view women as objects for his desire

Answer 2

-18) “I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women.”

-19) ‘So pretty and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life’

Question 3

Gerald is presented to hold Mr Birlings capitalistic viewpoints however be more empathetic

Answer 3

-20) “I dont come into this suicide business”
-19) ‘So pretty and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life’

Question 4

“I dont come into this suicide business”

Answer 4

-Business –> birling
-Short statement / dismissal
- No interest in what doesnt affect him
-How the high classes dismiss working class and continue t do so
-Socialism revolutoion

Question 5

“I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women.”

Question 6

‘So pretty and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life’

Question 7

“It’s a favourite haunt of women of the town”

Answer 7

-Euphemism for prositiution
-Mask true intentions/ sin