Inspector Calls Charictars

Question 1

Mr birling

Answer 1

Wife says
“I don’t think you ought to talk on business”
Fool
“ there isn’t a chance of war”
Poor to rich
“Hard-headed practical business men”
Scared of public opinion
Uses “scandale” before, during and after the inspector
Mr birling is capitalist
“Has to look after himself”
Lack of care
“What’s the matter with that child”
Cared more about money
“ you damned fool” to Eric
He calls it
“Nonsense”

Question 2

Sybil Birling

Answer 2

Condesending of poor and young girls
“Girls of that class”
“Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days!”
Caring mother
“No, of course not. He’s only a boy”
Misandristic approach
“You know him, Gerald- and your a man”
Avoids responsibility
“ though naturally I don’t know anything about this child”
( naturally is an adverb )
Dismissal
“Affaire”
Capitalistic
“Gross impatience”

Question 3

Socialist vs capitalist convo

Answer 3

Mrs B-“I don’t understand you inspector”
IG-“you mean you don’t choose to, Mrs Birling”
Mrs B-“(angrily) I meant what I said”
IG-“You’re not telling me the truth”
Mrs B- “I beg your pardon!”

Question 4

Sheila

Answer 4

Naive
“Daddy””mummy”
Socialist
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour-they’re people”
Responsible
“So I’m really responsible”
Insecure
“Pretty”
Dehuminisation of poor
“If she’d have been some miserable plain little creature”
Affected
“We all drove that girl to suicide”

Question 5

Eric

Answer 5

“What about war?”
“(Involuntary) My God!”
“She was pretty and a good sport—“
“I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty”
“Eric you stole money”
“We all admitted it”

Question 6

Doorbell

Answer 6

“We hear the sharp ring of a door bell. Birling stops to listen”

Question 7

Gerald

Answer 7

“Sir” slightly older in mind
“Sounds a bit fishy to me” a good man of character
“I don’t suppose I have -“ the “-“ is a sign it’s real
“Don’t say anything to the inspector”
“Women of the town”
“My God!” Close link with Eric
“How about this ring”
“How do we know any girl killed herself today”

Question 8

Inspector

Answer 8

“We are all members of one body”
“No, wait a minute Mrs Birling”

Question 9

Relation with capitalists and criminals

Answer 9

Mr birling- “ we’re respectable citizens and not criminals”
IG-“ sometimes there isn’t much difference as you think. Often, if it was left to me, I wouldn’t know where to draw the line”

Question 10

Young people are socialist

Answer 10

“We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable”