quotes

• moment 2: act 2: argument between Gerald and Sheila

  • "Why should you? It's bound to be unpleasant and disturbing" -Gerald
  • "You've been through it- and now you want to see somebody else put through it" -Gerald
  • "I know I'm to blame- and I'm desperately sorry"
• moment 3: act 3: the inspector's final speech

  • "if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish"
  • "We don't live alone. We are members of one body. we are responsible for each other."
  • "My child- your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn you-"
• moment 4: act 3: the final scene

  • "(passionately)You're pretending everything's just as it was before" -Sheila
  • "Fire and blood and anguish"-repeated
  • "the famous younger generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke-"
  • "the telephone rings sharply"