Gerald Flashcards
1
Q
Capitalist / Arthur Birling of the future
A
‘Hear, hear!’
Response to Mr Birling
‘You couldn’t have done anything else’
2
Q
Favoured by Birling
A
‘You’re just the kind of son in law I always wanted’
3
Q
Unfaithful
A
‘I did keep a girl last summer’
4
Q
Underestimates the inspector
A
‘Don’t say anything to the inspector […] we can keep it from him’
5
Q
Bridges the generations
A
‘Unless Eric’s been up to something’ (nodding confidently to Birling)
6
Q
Had good intentions
A
‘I made her go to Morgan Terrace because I was sorry for her’
7
Q
Intolerant of lower class
A
‘I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women’
8
Q
Remorseless
A
Sheila- ‘Between us we drove that girl to suicide’
Gerald- ‘Did we? Who says so?’
