Quotes

• ‘[For a moment They ( Gerald and Sheila) look at each other]’

  Act 1 - suggest Gerald and Sheila lack of love for each other
• , Exept for all last summer, when you never came near me(Sheila)’

  ACT 1 - foreshadows Gerald truth and shows that Sheila find him suspicious
• ‘I believe you right sir’


  ACT 1 - Gerald sucks up to Birling by agree to whatever he says- child ego
• ‘Where are respectable citizens and not criminals’


  ACT 1 - Gerald initially believes that they can do no wrong
• ‘ don’t say anything to the inspector’

  Act 1 - Gerald is trying to conceal information not realising the inspector knows all displaying him as suspicious
• ‘When we meet again- not accidentally this time’


  ACT 2- Gerald is honest about his affair making him more likeable than
• ‘I didn’t install her there so that I could make her love her’


  ACT 2 - Gerald explains that at first he pity and didn’t cheat on Sheila
• ‘ she didn’t blame me at all. I wish to God she had now, perhaps i feel better about it’


  ACT 2 - Gerald is he has done and wishes he had been held accountable earlier- adult ego
• ‘ I’d rather respect you more than I’ve ever done before (Sheila)’


  ACT 2 - Shiela ( and the audience) realising that Gerald has become honest and have more respect for him as a character
• ‘ We’ve no proof it was the same photographs and therefore no proof it’s was the same girl’


  ACT 3 - although changed throughout the play he still would prefer not to take accountability