Wealth and Materialism

• Stage directions - "fairly large suburban house, belonging to a prosperous manufacturer"
• Stage directions - "substantial and heavily comfortable"
• Stage directions - "champagne glasses", "port", "cigar box"
• Stage directions - "not cosy and homelike"
• Sheila - "isn't it a beauty? Oh - darling -"
• Sheila - "Now I really feel engaged"
• Inspector - "she wanted twenty-five shillings a week instead of twenty-two and sixpence. You made her pay a heavy price for that"
• Eric - "insisted on giving her enough money to keep her going"
• Gerald - "insisted on a parting gift"
• Mr Birling - "I'd give thousands - yes, thousands-"