mr birling

• mr birling is hubristic, capitalistic, pompous and assertive
• "hard headed practical man of business"


  he repeats this throughout the play showing this is how he wants to be perceived. symbol of capitalism
• "as if were all mixed up together like bees in a hive"


  birling attempt to trivialise the concept of socialism
• "obviously it has nothing whatever to do with the wretched girls suicide"


  dismissive language, arrogant tone
• stage direction "triumphantly"
• "probably a socialist or some sort of crank"


  again he is dismissing and favours capitalism