Gerald Flashcards

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Capitalist / Arthur Birling of the future

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‘Hear, hear!’
Response to Mr Birling
‘You couldn’t have done anything else’

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2
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Favoured by Birling

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‘You’re just the kind of son in law I always wanted’

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3
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Unfaithful

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‘I did keep a girl last summer’

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4
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Underestimates the inspector

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‘Don’t say anything to the inspector […] we can keep it from him’

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5
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Bridges the generations

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‘Unless Eric’s been up to something’ (nodding confidently to Birling)

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6
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Had good intentions

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‘I made her go to Morgan Terrace because I was sorry for her’

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7
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Intolerant of lower class

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‘I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women’

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8
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Remorseless

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Sheila- ‘Between us we drove that girl to suicide’

Gerald- ‘Did we? Who says so?’

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