Characters

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Characters

• Inspector Calls

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Arthur Birling

• Capitalist
• heavy-looking rather portentous man his
  appearance is large and threatening
• Catalyst for the Inspectors arrival
• Tries to bribe the Inspector
• Buys same port as Geralds father
• Self-confident
• Bumptious (noisily assertive)
• Bigoted (doesnt care about opinions of others)
• Not as much in control as he thinks

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Sybil Birling

• Arrogant
• Ignorant
• Conceited
• Pompous
• rather cold woman and her husbands social
  superior
• Lack of conscience
• Unsympathetic

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Sheila Birling

• pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased
  with life and rather excited
• Happy?????
• Sensitive
• Socialist
• Jealous
• Regret, remorse
• Sympathetic
• Honest
• Gains responsibility

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Eric Birling

• Squiffy
• Awkward Not quite at ease, half shy, half
  assertive
• Does not have his fathers affection or approval
• Sympathetic
• Violent rape
• Matures through play ironic he learnt nothing
  through his privileged education
• Gains responsibility

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Gerald Croft

• Capitalist
• Love??????
• Self-confident
• Affair
• Acts on suspicions
• Learns a lesson???

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Eva Smith / Daisy Renton

• Eva Eve as in the bible. Smith most common
  English surname. Therefore she is a symbol for
  every woman, or, more generally, the people we
  meet in our everyday lives
• Never know her true name
• Pretty
• Her tragedy is used by the Inspector to make us
  think of our responsibility towards others

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The Inspector

• Omniscient
• Phantom
• an impression of massiveness, solidity and
  purposefulness
• Priestly speaks through him
• He is in control of events
• Does not forgive
• Symbol of morality
• Abrasive