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Arthur Birling (tries to intimidate the inspector, with his importance.…
Arthur Birling
tries to intimidate the inspector, with his importance.
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old friend of the chief constable, and they play golf together
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Quotes
"hard-header, practical man of business"
"good dinner too, Sybil. tell cook from me."
by Mrs Birling, considered to be in bad taste.
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"But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after somebody else as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense."
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Audience views
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when he speaks about war or Titanic, the audience knows he's wrong and applies that to his views on socialism
Description
heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech
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wants to avoid scandal
not affected by death of Eva Smith, but by the fact that his son has been stealing funds from the business
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Development.
At the end of the play, he had not developed at all, and remained selfish throughout.
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respectable middle-class life, in an industrial city
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