Q2: "When you're married ... as I had."

Question 1

“When ____ married ____ realise that ____ with _____ _____ to do sometimes have to spend ____ _____ their _____ and _____ on their ____. ____ have to get ____ to _____ , _____ _____ I _____.”

Answer 1

“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. You’ll have to get used to that, just as I had.”

Question 2

who said it and when? who did they say it to? what is it about?

Answer 2

Act 1.
Mrs Birling to her daughter, Sheila Birling.
In discussion of Sheila’s upcoming marriage to her fiancée, Gerald Croft.

Question 3

4 key points:

Answer 3

• Repetitive direct address; Mrs B projects her entrenched and deeply patriarchal beliefs onto her impressionable and naïve daughter
• adjective “important” permits the negligence of men
• dichotomy between the men’s “important” “business” and the women’s need to “get used to that” intensifies the hierarchal distinction between men & women.
• Mrs B conform to the patriarchal ideals and societal expectations of women in a facile nature, which indicates that these ideologies have been passed down through generation