gerald croft Flashcards
1
Q
avaricious
A
greedy
2
Q
duplicitous
A
deceitful
3
Q
aloof
A
cool and distant
4
Q
what character is gerald croft a mirror of
A
arthur birling
5
Q
why wasn’t the inspector that critical of gerald
A
priestly was unfaithful in his own marriage
6
Q
gerald representing sophism
A
his deceptions gets eva drunk before he feeds her
7
Q
sophism
A
a clever but false argument, especially one used deliberately to deceive.
8
Q
“and now at least you’ve been honest”
A
- sheila has been conditioned due to patriarchal society to accept infidelity for social status
- priestleys moral out rage
9
Q
“it happened that a friend of mine went to canada for 6 months and had let me have a nice little set of rooms”
A
- he could have her when he wanted
- sexually exploited
- like all upper class men
10
Q
“she lived on what i’d allowed her”
A
priestly enraged by this justification
shows his deceit
he could have allowed her a lot more
