Mr Birling Key Moments

Cards (13)

  • 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