Gerald Crofft

Question 1

‘You seem to be a nice well-behaved family’

Answer 1

Appearance doesn’t make you a good person.

Question 2

‘After all, y’know, we’re respectable citizens and-

Answer 2

not criminals’

Question 3

‘Inspector, I think Miss Birling ought to be excused any more of this questioning. She’s nothing more to tell you. She’s had a long, exciting and tiring day’

Answer 3

Gerald is controlling Sheila, and she should be able to make her own decisions. Gerald doesn’t want Sheila to hear the rest of the conversation foreshadowing his affair.

Question 4

‘Why should you? It’s bound to be-

Answer 4

unpleasant and disturbing’

Question 5

‘I hate those-

Answer 5

hard-eyed dough-faced women’

Question 6

‘It’s my favourite haunt of women of the town’

Answer 6

Gerald has been to the palace bar more than once referring that he must have done it multiple times behind Sheila’s back, without her knowing.