Gerald Croft
- Created by: ElLiEbUrDeN
- Created on: 25-03-17 14:22
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- Gerald Croft
- He is neither good nor bad
- He's a hypocrite
- Gerald agrees "young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things"
- But it was Gerald who did the unpleasant and disturbing things to Eva
- He's a hypocrite
- He doesn't think he's done anything wrong
- His language shows that he doesn't feel remorse
- At the end of the play he says "everything's alright now Shelia" - he hasn't learnt his lesson
- He's the first character to use the 'hoax' - he wants to prove that the Inspector's a fake and wants to protect his reputation
- He did care for Eva but treatted he badly due to her social status
- He kept her as his mistress for his own please then discared her - basically made her homeless
- His language shows that he doesn't feel remorse
- Purpose in the play
- He shows that young people can be selfish and unchangeable too
- He represents the selfish attitudes of the upper class
- He lets the audience down; we had hope that he would change his attitudes but he doesn't - shows how integrated into the upper class these views were
- Characteristics
- a LIAR
- "I wasn't telling you a complete lie"
- He isn't willing to reveal his involvement - wants to protect his own interests (Like Mr Birling?)
- keen to impress Mr.Birling
- He has lots of similar views to Birling (he'll end up like Birling?)
- He's business minded and likes to be in control like Birling
- "We'd have done the same thing."
- Agrees with Birling's social and political views and laughs at Mr Birling's jokes
- Upper-class
- "We're respectable citizens after all."
- He's from an old country family - the Birlings social superior
- Traditional
- "I should say so too!" (agreeing with Birling)
- He did care for Eva
- "I'm rather more - upset by this business than I probably appear to be-"
- But he used her
- He knew her feelings for him were stronger than his own
- But he used her
- "I'm rather more - upset by this business than I probably appear to be-"
- a LIAR
- He is neither good nor bad
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