Key Quotes Flashcards
Gerald key quotes
‘startled’ - verb
‘I’m almost certain’ - adverb
‘Daisy Renton’
‘Nearly any man would have done’ - man emphasises they are all the problem
‘Fairy Prince’ - proper noun assumes the status over Eva which he has exploited because women cannot be financially independant
‘and now at least you’ve been honest’
SOPHISTY - DECEPTIONS
Sibyl
‘Sibyl’
‘I didn’t like her manner’
‘I simply don’t understand’
‘I can’t believe it’
‘claim’ - gives her criminal airs, suggest a ficticious nature of her story
Arthur Birling
‘Arthur’
‘pitiful affair’
‘I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of buisness’
‘you must understand that a lot of young men…’
‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’
Eric
‘But don’t forget I’m ashamed of both of you as well’
‘it seems’
‘that state in which a chap turns nasty’
‘ you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to’
• denies its a crime, ‘not really’
