Inspector Calls Characters
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- An Inspector Calls
- Sybil Birling
- Matriarch of the Birling family
- Described as "cold"
- Is pleased with her daughters engagement but ignores any potential discord in the family
- Serves on a charitable committee in the town
- Protects what she perceives to be the families good image
- Busies herself with events
- Arthur Birling
- Hosting a dinner at which Gerald Croft and his daughter Sheila are guests of honour
- His business success allows his Family to live upper-middle-class lives.
- Owns a profitable manufacturing company
- "rather portentous" man "in his fifties"
- Patriarch of the Birling Family
- Sheila Birling
- Daughter or Arthur and Sybil
- "in her early twenties"
- Engaged to Gerald Croft
- Believes her future lies bright before her
- Eva/Daisy's death devastates Sheila
- Eric Birling
- Son of Arthur and Sybil and older brother of Sheila
- Works part-time at the family business
- Has a drinking problem that he hides
- It is revealed that he had a romantic relationship with a woman
- Resulting in a child born out of wedlock
- Gerald Croft
- Fiancé to Sheila
- Son of another prominent manufacturing family
- From a more socially-elevated family
- Arthur worries that Gerald's parents believe he is making a "poor match" in marrying Sheila
- Had an affair with Daisy
- The Inspector notes that he is perhaps the least culpable and most morally upright of all characters
- Inspector Goole
- Represents, apparently, the local police force sent to investigate Eva Smith/Daisy Renton's suicide
- Seems he knows the answer to everything he asks
- Wants the family to admit to various instances of wrongdoing
- Edna
- The Birling's' maid
- Mostly sets the scenes in which the family eats and talks
- Makes money by virtue of her labor
- Leaves the room at the end of the play without mention of her absence or whereabouts
- Eva Smith/Daisy Renton
- The victim in the play and most mysterious character
- Was an employee of Arthur but was dismissed after she asked for a raise
- Her photo is shown to each character one by one
- Sybil Birling
- Arthur Birling
- Hosting a dinner at which Gerald Croft and his daughter Sheila are guests of honour
- His business success allows his Family to live upper-middle-class lives.
- Owns a profitable manufacturing company
- "rather portentous" man "in his fifties"
- Patriarch of the Birling Family
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