Inspector calls quotes Flashcards
Sheila recognises family need to change and drop these
Silly pretences
Sheila has moral standards £ hand back engagement ring
You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here
Sheila accepts responsibility
All my own fault
Social class, mrs B to Eva Smith
Girls of that class
Gerald is respectable
The easy well-bred young man-about-town
Sheila is sharp
He’s giving us rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves
Mrs Billing / social responsibility
I accept no blame for it at all
Sheila is moral
But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people
Billing believes community responsibility is
Nonsense
Sheila starts stating her own opinions not those she is supposed to have
That’s what’s important and not whether a man is a police inspector or not
At first it seems Eric has the lowest morals of all the characters, but at least he regrets his mistakes
The fact remains that I did what I did
Sheila is strong minded
I don’t believe I will. So you be careful.
Not just trying to make feel guilty about Eva Smith but recognise difficulties faced by the
Millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths
Geralds character shows that younger people can be selfish and old fashioned - sacking of Eva smith
You couldn’t have done anything else
Inspector is Preistley’s mouthpiece
He never seemed like an ordinary police inspector