Gerald Flashcards
Desciption
“An attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but
very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town”
Uses his brain
“Well, it came just at the right moment. That was clever of you,
Gerald.”
Mody codling mr birling
“You couldn’t have done anything else” (sacking Eva Smith)
Thinks eva is a criminal
“After all, y’know, we’re respectable citizens and not criminals”
Suggesting that sheila shouldn’t listen anymore
(about Sheila): “She’s obviously had about as much as she can stand”
Thinking he is in charge
“Why should you [stay]? It’s bound to be unpleasant and disturbing”
Prostitutes
“It’s a favourite haunt of women of the town”
Thinking hes doing a good deed
‘[Daisy] gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help”
Helping daisy
“I insisted on Daisy moving into these rooms and I made her take some
money to keep her going there…I want you to understand that I didn’t
install her there so I could make love to her…I was sorry for her…I
didn’t ask for anything in return”
His description of daisy
“She was young and pretty and warm-hearted- and intensely grateful. I
became at once the most important person in her life- you
Trying to make them see his point of view
understand?”
Showing her a life she cant have
“She told me she’d been happier than she’d ever been before”
Trying to justify wat he did
“Nearly any man would have done” (adored being ‘fairy prince’)
Suspicious about inspector
“That man wasn’t a police officer…I’m almost certain”
Trying to change the topic
“But how do you know it’s the same girl? … We’ve no proof it was the
same photograph and therefore no proof it was the same girl”
