Eric Birling

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  • Created on: 15-04-17 15:26
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  • Eric Birling
    • His involvement with eva smith
      • Met her at the Palace bar
        • went back to hers and slept with her
      • got her pregnant
        • started stealing money to help her
          • she refused the money because it was stolen
        • offered to marry her
    • responsibility
      • He immediately accepts responsibility for what he has done
        • ‘we helped to kill her.’
      • he knows what he did to eva was wrong
        • ‘I was in that state when  a chap easily turns nasty.’
    • character
      • Has a drinking problem
        • Sheila "your Squiffy"
        • I have gathered that he does drink pretty hard
    • key quotes
      • ‘You’re beginning to pretend as if nothing’s really happened at all. And I can’t see it like that. The girl’s still dead, isn’t she?’
      • ‘You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble. That’s why.’
        • He doesn't have a good relationship with his father
      • ‘You killed her – and the child she’d have had too – my child’
        • he cared for Eva and his unborn child

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