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An Inspector Calls Quotes
Gerald
He is described a “the easy well-bred young man about town”
Inspector admits that he “had some affection for her (Eva) and made her happy for a time”
Sheila calls him a “wonderful fairy prince”
Hasn’t learnt any lessons at end of play telling Sheila “Everything’s all right now, Sheila”
"I don't come into this suicide business"
"You seem to be a nice well-behaved family"
Eva Smith/Daisy Renton
Attractive-”Young and fresh and charming ”
Honourable- “She didn’t want to take any more money from him?”
Working class- “Girls of that class?”
Mr Birling
Brags to Gerald that “There’s a very good chance of a knighthood”
Calls people like the inspector “cranks”
Keen on engagement because of “lower costs and higher prices”
His philosophy of life-“a man has to mind his own business and look after himself”
Once the Inspector leaves Mr Birling turns on his son "You're the one I blame for this"
Mrs Birling
“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money”
Cruel -“I used my influence to have it (Eva’s request for help) refused”
Of Eva’s death she tells the Inspector that “I accept no blame for it at all”
Sheila
Jokes with Gerald but has concerns about him even at start. She is “half serious, half playful”
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour they’re people”
Claims at the end of the play “probably between us we killed her”
"I couldn't be sorry for her"
Eric
Eric has a "familiarity with quick heavy drinking”
“I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty”
After raping Eva he admits-“I didn’t even remember that’s the hellish thing”
Of Mr Birling “You’re not the kind of father a chap can turn to”
Admits at the end that “The fact remains that I did what I did”
Inspector Goole
“He never seemed like an ordinary police inspector“
Moral “We don’t live alone. We are members of one body”
Warns characters to learn lesson or be taught in “fire, blood and anguish”