Inspecter Calls Flashcards
Description of Mr Birling
“heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech.”
Port
it’s exactly the same port your father gets.”
Describes day before inspector
“is one of the happiest nights of my life.”
View on working
“a man has to make his own way.”
When Eric stole money Mr B says
“I’ve got to cover this up as soon as I can.”
Description of Eric
“in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive.”
Eric drinking
“I have gathered that he does drink pretty hard.” Gerald
Eric and workers wages
“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?”
What does Eric say to his parents when they can’t admit what they have done
“I’m ashamed of you.”
Eric realising that it is all the families fault
“We did her in all right.”
Description of Gerald
“an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred man-about-town.”
Why take Eva home
“because I was sorry for her;”
Description of Eva Smith
“very pretty - soft brown hair and big dark eyes.”
Mr B taking about the Titanic
and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable.
Mr B description of himself
And I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business.
