Mr Birling Key Moments

• Gives long speeches during the engagement dinner which expose the foolishness of capitalism and his desire to marry his daughter for moneyy
• Boasts about his knighthood before he has been given one
• Tries to intimidate the inspector by name-dropping
• Sacks Eva Smith in retaliation for leading a strike
• Expresses that he feels justified for sacking Eva
• Assumes Eva went on the streets after being sacked
• Defends Gerald's affair as many men do the same
• Criticises his wife's actions and how it will look
• Tries to stop Gerald drinking but is overruled
• Expresses anger that Eric stole from him
• Offers to cover up Eric's indiscretion
• Drinks to celebrate the Inspector wasn't real and no girl died
• Receives the end phone call