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- He is described at the start as a "heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties but rather provincial in his speech."
- he is aware of people who are his social superiors, which is why he shows off about the port to Gerald, "it's exactly the same port your father gets."
- He is proud that he is likely to be knighted, as that would move him even higher in social circles.
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- Mr Birling is the most driven of all the characters and is portrayed as being shaking by the incidents of that night.
- He is told by his son Eric, that he has pressured him and doesn't let him do his own thing.
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- He is optimistic for the future and confident that there will not be a war. As the audience knows there will be a war, we begin to doubt Mr Birling's judgement.
- He is extremely selfish:He wants to protect himself and his family. He believes that socialist ideas that stress the importance of the community are "nonsense" and that "a man has to make his own way."
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- He has worked his way up in the world and is proud of his achievements.
- At the end of the play, he knows he has lost the chance of his knighthood, his reputation in Brumley and the chance of Birling and Co. merging with their rivals.
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