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Gerald: Involvement with Eva/Daisy - Coggle Diagram
Gerald: Involvement with Eva/Daisy
Gerald rescued her from and awkward with Joe Meggarty.
Gerald: "The girl saw me lookin at her and then gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help. So I went across and told Joe Meggarty some nonsense -that the manager had a message for him or something like that- got him out of the way - and then told the girl that if she didn't want any more of that sort of thing, she'd better let me take her out of there. She agreed at once."
Gerald admits that he was having an affair with Daisy over the summer, and that is why he didn't have time with sheila.
"Inspector: But she became your mistress? Gerald: Yes. I suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warm-hearted - and intensely grateful. I became at once the most important person in her life - you understand?
Daisy and Gerald met in the stalls bar at the Palace music hall in Brumley, in March a year before this scene. After a long day he went to the bar to get a drink and he noticed a girl quite different. But, she wasn't enjoying herself because a man had wedged her into a corner. Daisy saw Gerald and send him a cry of help. So, Gerald approached her and made the man go away.
At some point, Gerald knew she didn't have a penny, and was going to be turned out of the miserable back room she had, so, he insisted Daisy to move at the house he was looking after.
Quote: that in fact she hadn't a penny and was going to be turned out of the miserable back room she had. It happened that a friend of mine, Charlie Brunswick, had gone off to Canada six months and had let me have the key of a nice little set of rooms he had- in Morgan Terrace -and had asked me to keep an eye on them for him and use them if I wanted to.So I insisted on Daisy moving into those rooms and I made her take some money to keep her going there.
Gerald hesitates in telling the truth, but finally comes clean.
Gerald: "Where did you get the idea that I did know her?"
Daisy became his mistress
Inspector: "And then you decided to keep her - as your mistress?"(here he doesn't admit it at first).(But then, later on with the conversation). "Inspector: But she became your mistress. Gerald: Yes. I suppose it was inevitable."
He broke off their relationship before he went away on a business trip.
I had to go away for several weeks then - on business - and by that time Daisy knew it was coming to an end. So I broke it off definitely before I went.
At the second, he hears "Daisy Renton", he is in complete shock.
He is really kind to her.
Gerald: "The girl saw me looking at her and then gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help. So I went across and told Joe Meggarty some nonsense - that the manager had a message for him..."
He didn't knew her as Eva Smith, he knew her as Daisy Renton. (She had many names)
Gerald: "She told me her name was Daisy Renton.."
Gerald adored being with Daisy, because he was something similar to a prince for her.
Sheila: "You were the wonderful Fairy Prince. You must have adored it Gerald."
When they went to County Hotel, Gerald asked her questions about herself and she answered them briefly but openly.
"Gerald: Yes. I asked her questions about herself. She told me her name was Daisy Renton, that she'd lost both parents, that she came originally from somewhere outside Brumley. She also told me she'd had a job in one of the works here and had had to leave after a strike. She said something about a shop too, but wouldn't say which it was, and she was deliberately vague about what happened. I couldn't get any exact details from her about her past life. She wanted to talk about herself -just because she felt I was interested and friendly- but at the same time she wanted to be Daisy Renton- - and not Eva Smith."
Gerald was wrong in having an affair with Daisy and then abandon her, but when he uses phrases like "cry for help", we can see that he really felt sorry for her and that he wanted to help.