An Inspector Calls CHARACTERS
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- An Inspector Calls CHARACTER
- Mr Birling
- arrogant
- "You'll apologize at once ... I'm a public man"
- more concerned about knighthood and relationship with the croft family so they can join forces
- wants to show off to Gerald
- described at the start as a "heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech."
- arrogant
- Mrs Birling
- described at the start as "about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband's social superior."
- she is a Classist Snob. Thinks she is socially and morally superior
- she tries to deny everything
- Eric Birling
- described at the start as "in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive."
- He played a significant part in Eva Smith’s death – he met her at the Palace Bar, forced his way into her home and got her pregnant. ‘I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty.’ He then stole money from his father’s business in order to support her.
- He is appalled by his parents' inability to admit their own responsibility. He tells them forcefully, "I'm ashamed of you.
- Gerald Croft
- described as "an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred man-about-town."
- He did have some genuine feeling for Daisy Renton, however: he is very moved when he hears of her death. He tells Inspector Goole that he arranged for her to live in his friend's flat "because I was sorry for her;" she became his mistress because "She was young and pretty and warm-hearted - and intensely grateful."
- Inspector Goole
- described on his entrance as creating "an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness. He is a man in his fifties, dressed in a plain darkish suit. He speaks carefully, weightily, and has a disconcerting habit of looking hard at the person he addresses before actually speaking. "
- Mr Birling
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