Inspector calls quotes Flashcards
“It is an evening in spring, 1912”
shows us a new begging and the time it’s set
“The dining room is of a fairly large suburban house”
Shows a wealthy family. Could show Capitalism
“The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives and then it should be
brighter and harder”
Inspector has a lot of power and a strong presence
“Arthur Birling at one end, his wife at the other, Eric downstage and Sheila and Gerald seated
upstage”
Shows where there all seated the parents and each end Gerald and Shelia up stage and Erik down stage.
“EDNA, the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table champagne glasses”
Shows her role as a table maid. Not really important
“Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in this middle fifties with fairly easy
manners but rather provincial in this speech”
Wealthy man. Since he’s quite big and in his fifties it backs up the fact that he probably has a lot of money
“His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior”
Also in her fifties since she is her husbands social superior it means she was the one who came from the higher social class
“Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited”
Young pretty girl who comes from a rich family
“Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, … very much the well-bred young man-about-
town”
He is a good looking chap and his from a very high social class
Socialist
“I’m talking as a hard-headed practical man of business”
