Inspector calls quotes

Question 1

Social responsibility, guilt QUOTES (ERIC)

Answer 1

THE MONEYS not the important thing. It’s what happened and what we did to her that matters’
- ‘I did what I did. Mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her’

Question 2

SOCIALIST VIEWS /EMPATHY QUOTES? (ERIC)

Answer 2

• ‘Why shouldn’t they ask for higher wages? we try for the highest prices’
• ‘HE COULD OF kept her instead of throwing her out’

-‘My God’

Question 3

Age/Immaturity, QUOTES (ERIC)

Question 4

Gender quotes (ERIC)

Answer 4

• ‘I was in a state when a chap easily turns nasty’
• ‘Threatened to make a row’
• ‘I DIDNT even remember that’s the devilish thing’

Question 5

SOCIALISM QUOTES (SHEILA)

Answer 5

• ‘HES GIVING us the rope so that we hang ourselves’

- ‘These guys aren’t cheap labour – they’re people

Question 6

AGE QUOTES (SHEILA)

Answer 6

It’s you two who are being childish- trying not to face the facts’

Question 7

Responsibility QUOTES (SHEILA)

Answer 7

• ‘It was my own fault’
• ‘Don’t interfere please, father’
• ‘You and I aren’t the same people’

Question 8

GENDER quotes (SHEILA)

Answer 8

• ‘Your father and I have been friendly rivals in business … now you’ve brought us together’#
• ‘Nothing to do with you. Sheila, run along’
• ‘Mommy’ + ‘Daddy’
• ‘She’s a pretty girl’

Question 9

Class/capitalism quotes (SHEILA)

Answer 9

-‘Now I really feel engaged’ + ‘admiringly’

Question 10

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY/GUILT QUOTES (MRS BIRLING)

Answer 10

• ‘I had done no more than my duty’

- ‘I did nothing I’m ashamed of’

Question 11

Gender quotes (MRS BIRLING)

Answer 11

• ‘Women of the town?’ ‘It COULD be much better Sheila didn’t listen to this STORY at all’
  -‘When you’re MARRIED you’ll realise that men with IMPORTANT work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business’
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Question 12

Class quotes (MRS BIRLING)

Answer 12

• ‘used my influence to have it refused’
• ‘Called herself Mrs Birling’
• ‘Arthur you’re not supposed to say such things’
• ‘Arthur Birling at one end, his wife at the other’

Question 13

ABUSUAL OF POWER/ EXPLOITATION OF WORKING CLASS quotes (MR BIRLING)

Answer 13

• ‘She had a lot to say- far too much-so she had to go’

- ;duty to keep labour costs down’, A MAN has to ‘look out for himself and his own’

Question 14

Lack of responsibility quotes (MR BIRLING)

Answer 14

• ‘done nothing wrong’

- ‘thousands yes thousands’

Question 15

Errors of capitalism/middleclass quotes (MR BIRLING)

Answer 15

• ‘Titanic is unsinkable’ + ‘German’s don’t want war’

- ‘A practical man of business’

Question 16

Gender quotes (MR BIRLING)

Answer 16

• ‘Run along Sheila’

- ‘She had a lot to say, far too much’

Question 17

EXPLOITATION quotes (EVA)

Answer 17

‘A glance that was nothing less than a cry for help’

-‘She was pretty and a good sport’

Question 18

Power quotes (EVA)

Answer 18

• ‘Old Alderman Meggarty wedged her into a corner’
• -‘I threatened to make a row’
• ‘Burned her inside out’

Question 19

Class quotes (EVA)

Answer 19

• ‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money’
• ‘Daisy Renton’
• ‘Smith’

Question 20

Gender quotes (EVA)

Answer 20

• ‘If she’d been some miserable plain little creature, I don’t suppose I’d have done it
• ‘She was pretty too’
• ‘She had a lot to say- far too much-so she had to go’

Question 21

AGE QUOTES SHEILA

Answer 21

It’s you two who are being childish- trying not to face the facts’