Mr Birling

• P1 : 'a hard-headed practical man of business'
• P1 : 'Crofts and Birlings ... working together - for lower costs and higher prices'
• P2 : 'The Titanic ... unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable ... war is inevitable ... fiddlesticks'
• P2 : 'you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else ... like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense'
• P3 : 'look at the pair of them - the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke'
• P3 : 'look you better ask Gerald for the ring you gave back to him hadn't you. Then you will feel better'