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INSPECTOR CALLS KEY QUOTATIONS‘pink and intimate’ – ‘brighter and Opening stage directions for before and
harder’. after the Inspector arrives.
‘A heavy-looking, rather portentous man’ Stage directions describing Arthur Birling -
‘but rather provincial in his speech’ Act One (page 1)
‘A rather cold woman and her husband’s Stage directions describing, Sybil Birling -
social superior’ Act One (page 1)
‘A pretty girl’ Stage directions describing, Sheila Birling -
‘very pleased with life and rather excited’ Act One (page 1/2)
‘An attractive chap’ Stage directions describing, Gerald Croft -
‘Rather too manly to be a dandy’ Act One (page 2)
‘very much the easy well-bred young man-
about-town’
‘Not quite at ease’ Stage directions describing, Eric Birling -
‘half shy, half assertive’ Act One (page 2)
‘men with important work’ Mrs Birling – Act One (page 3)
‘have to spend nearly all their time and
energy on business’
‘You’ll have to get used to that, just as I
had.’
‘Really the things you girls pick up these
days!’
Eric suddenly guffaws. His parents look at Eric – Act One (page 3)
him.
‘lower costs and higher prices’ Mr Birling – Act One (page 4)
‘I speak as a hard-headed business man, Mr Birling – Act One (page 6)
who has to take risks and know what he’s
about’
‘a lot of wild talk about possible labour Mr Birling – Act One (page 6)
trouble in the near future’
‘Don’t worry. We’ve passed the worst of
it’
‘in for a time of steadily increasing Mr Birling – Act One (page 6/7)
prosperity’
‘war impossible’
‘the Germans don’t want war’
‘Titanic – unsinkable, absolutely Mr Birling – Act One (page 7)
, unsinkable’
‘silly little war scares’
‘We can’t let these Bernard Shaws and
H.G. Wellses do all the talking’ Mr Birling – Act One (page 7)
‘You seem to be a nice well-behaved Gerald Croft – Act one (page 8)
family-‘
‘clothes mean something different to a Mr Birling – Act One (page 9)
woman’
‘a sort of sign or token of their self-
respect’
‘a man has to make his own way- has to Mr Birling – Act One (page 9)
look after himself- and his family too, of
course’
‘you’d think everybody has to look after Mr Birling – Act One (page 10)
everybody else, as if we were all mixed up
together like bees in a hive- community
and all that nonsense.’
‘a man has to mind his own business and Mr Birling – Act One (page 10)
look after himself and his own- and-
We hear a sharp ring of a front door.
Birling stops to listen.’
‘not be a big man but he creates at once Stage directions describing, Inspector
an impression of massiveness, solidity and Goole, Act One (page 11)
purposefulness’
‘he speaks carefully, weightily’ Stage directions describing, Inspector
‘has a disconcerting habit of looking hard Goole, Act One (page 11)
at the person he addresses before actually
speaking’
‘Burnt her insides out, of course.’ Inspector Goole – Act One (page 11)
‘she was in great agony’
‘Suicide, of course.’
‘nothing mysterious- or scandalous- about Mr Birling – Act One (page 13)
this business- at least not so far as I’m
concerned.’
‘wretched girl’s suicide’
‘A chain of events’ Inspector Goole – Act One (page 14)
‘it’s my duty to keep labour costs down’ Mr Birling – Act One (page 15)
‘it’s a free country I told them’
‘She’d had a lot to say – far too much – so
she had to go.’
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