Mr Birling
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- Created on: 14-04-17 11:42
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- Mr Birling
- The father of Sheila and Eric Birling and husband to Sybil Birling
- Wealthy businessman and owns a factory in Brumley
- Has been the city's Lord mayor and is a magistrate
- Hosts a celebratory dinner for Sheila's engagement to Gerald Croft
- Wants the Birlings and Crofts to unite in business as well as marriage
- Keen to receive a knighthood
- Believes that a man's responsibility is only to himself and his family and not to the wider community
- Dismissed Eva Smith from her job at his factory two years previously
- Tries to take control when the Inspector arrives but fails
- Fears scandal
- Mr Birling stands for all that is wrong with Edwardian Society
- Pompous
- "a hard-headed practical man of business"
- Uncharitable
- "Community and all that nonsense"
- "the wretched girl's suicide"
- "Community and all that nonsense"
- Capitalist
- "Lower costs and higher prices"
- Adroit
- "perhaps we may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but working together"
- Represents the bourgeoisie
- "heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech"
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