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Gender - Coggle Diagram
Gender
Act One
"need not be a big man but he creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness"
"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 did"
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"she was the right type for it, just as I was the wrong type. She was a very pretty girl too [...] if she'd been some miserable plain creature, I don't suppose I'd have done it"
"(half serious, half playful)"
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"your engagement to Sheila means a tremendous lot to me. She'll make you happy, and I'm sure you'll make her happy"
"Clothes mean something quite different to a woman. Not just something to wear - and not only something to make 'em look prettier - but - well, a sort of sign or token of their self-respect"
"She was a lively good-looking girl - country-bred, I fancy"
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Act Two
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"she was giving herself ridiculous airs. she was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position"
"She had to admit, after I began questioning her, that she had no claim to the name, that she wasn't married, and that the story she told at first - about a husband who'd deserted her - was quite false"
"I want to understand exactly what happens when a man says he's so busy at the works that he can hardly ever find time to come and see the girl he's supposed to be in love with" adding that she's "supposed to be engaged to the hero"
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"I think Miss Birling ought to be excused any more of tis questioning. She's nothing more to tell you. She's had a long, exciting and tiring day - we were celebrating our engagement, you know - and now she's obviously had about as much as she can stand "
"young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things" "We know one young woman who wasn't, don't we?
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he supposes their affair was "inevitable" as she was "young and pretty and warm-hearted - and intensely grateful"
Act Three
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"Well, I' m old enough to be married, aren't I, and I'm not married, and I hate these fat old tarts around town"
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