An Inspector Calls: Key Quotes Plot and Characters
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1. Unsinkable, absolutely Act1: Act3:
unsinkable (Mr B) The Birlings are having a dinner party celebrating the …but he stole the money
2. Girls of that class (Mrs B) engagement of Sheila and Gerald. Mr Birling gives a long speech from his father’s business.
3. I didn’t install her there so about prosperity and business. The Inspector arrives to ask the With all these revelations
that I could make love to Birling’s some questions about a young girl’s suicide. Mr Birling is out in the open, the
her (G) questioned first, insisting he has nothing to do with the matter. It Inspector leaves with his
4. There are millions and is soon revealed that the girl in question, Eva Smith, worked at final words about looking
millions of Eva Smiths (I) his factory 2 years ago and he fired her for going on strike. Sheila after each other. The Birlings
5. They will be taught it in fire is next to be questioned and she had Eva fired from her next job start to think he wasn’t a
and blood and anguish (I) at Milwards, a shop frequented by the Birling ladies. At the end real police inspector and
6. I was in that state when a of Act 1, the Inspector reveals that Eva changed her name to after a few phone calls
Daisy Renton – a name it is clear Gerald is familiar with…
chap easily turns nasty (E) confirm no one knows
Act 2:
7. He’s giving us the rope so Inspector Goole. They also
The next to be questioned is Gerald and it is revealed he had an
that we’ll hang ourselves (S) phone the infirmary and
affair with Daisy when he found her down on her luck and
8. As if we were all mixed up there have been no suicides.
offered her a place to stay. He broke off their affair and she was
together like bees in a hive The older characters are glad
very upset. We then learn about Mrs Birling’s involvement with
– community and all that Eva, who saw her just weeks ago. Eva came to her charity asking it was all a hoax and are
nonsense (Mr B) for money because she was pregnant. Mrs Birling says the father beginning to celebrate,
9. We do not live alone. We of the baby should be totally responsible… when the phone rings. Mr
are members of one body (I) Act 3: Birling is told a girl has just
10.You’re not the kind of Eric reappears and admits he was the father of Eva’s unborn died in the infirmary and a
father a chap could go to child, after they had sex one night when he was drunk. When he police inspector is on his way
when he’s in trouble (E) found out Eva was pregnant, he offered to get money to help to ask them some
her… questions…
01.How and why does Priestley present Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls? Write about: how the Inspector treats and deals
with the other characters how Priestley presents the Inspector by the ways he writes.
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02.How does Priestley explore the role of women in An Inspector Calls? Write about: the ideas about women presented in An
Inspector Calls how Priestley presents these ideas by the ways he writes.
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03.How and why does Sheila change in An Inspector Calls? Write about: how Sheila responds to her family and the Inspector
how Priestley presents Sheila by the ways he writes.
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04.How does Priestley explore responsibility in An Inspector Calls? Write about: the ideas about responsibility in An Inspector Calls
how Priestley presents these ideas by the ways he writes.
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05.How does Priestley use the character of Mrs Birling to explore ideas about social class? Write about: how Priestley presents the
character of Mrs Birling and her ideas how Priestley shows ideas about social class by the ways he writes.
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