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Question 1

‘substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike’

Answer 1

substantial
↳ lots of money

comfortable
↳ filled with excessive amounts of things which convey the birling’s wealth

homelike
↳ shows that there is no sense of solace & happiness at the birling’s home, they don’t have a close bond
↳ the fact that there is a distinction between comfort and cosiness suggests that things aren’t as they seem for the for the birlings

Question 2

‘pink and intimate’…’brighter and harder’

Answer 2

‘pink and intimate’
↳ suggests that the birlings view their life through rose-tinted spectacles

‘brighter and harder’
↳ through the arrival of the inspector, their true reality will be exposed
↳ inspector is coming to enlighten the family
↳ under light, nothing can be hidden
↳ could symbolize a spotlight that would put each of the birlings and gerald under interrogation
↳ white light could symbolist hope or purity (imply that the inspector is there to clean them of what they have done, enforces the idea that the inspector is supernatural)