AIC Character-Gerald Croft

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  • Gerald Croft
    • He conducts himself agreeably and politely with Mr and Mrs Birling
    • Discovers from a police sergeant that Inspector Goole wasn't real
    • Tells how he rescued Daisy Renton/Eva Smith from the drunken Alderman Meggarty
    • Telephones the infirmary and learns that no girl had died that day from suicide
    • Shows that he has the same approach to business as Mr Birling
    • Gives Sheila the engagement ring during the celebratory dinner
    • Admits that he kept the girl as his secret mistress for 6 months, then broke off the relationship
    • Doesn't fully take responsibility for his actions
    • Shows he has divided loyalty
    • He is very wealthy- social superior to the Birling's
    • "Everything's alright now Sheila"
    • "It's a favourite haunt of the women of the town"
    • "taken it in properly that she's dead
    • He is positive that he had nothing to do with Eva's death until he hears that she changed her name to Daisy Renton
    • He is the one who brings up the idea that the Inspector was fake
    • Agrees with Mr and Mrs Birling, rather than Sheila and Eric
    • Although he is part of the younger generation, at the end of the play he sides with the older gereration

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