an inspector calls

• ‘Hard-headed practical man of business’ x3
• ‘Some people will say that war is inevitable’
• ‘Absolutely unsinkable’
• ‘46,800 tons’ x2
• ‘These silly little war scares’
• ‘What about the war…Just let me finish Eric…’
• ‘You three young people’
• STRUCTURE: Birling dominates the speech to show he is intolerant of opposing views to establish his character.
• ‘It's my duty to ask questions.’ ‘Its my duty to keep labour costs down’
• ‘Asking for the Earth’ ‘better to ask for the earth than to take it’
• ‘Perhaps i ought to warn  you… we play golf together’ 
• ‘She'd had a lot to say - far too much - she had to go’
• Gerald: ‘They'd all be broke if i know them’ 
• STRUCTURE:(bursting out) Eric’s dissent is suppressed, erupts more assertively at times, ‘ He could. He could have…’ 
• ‘She’s had a long, exciting and tiring day’ 
• ‘Do you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?’
• We know one woman who wasn't.’
• ‘He means that i'm getting hysterical now.’And are you?’’Probably’
• ‘And now you want to see somebody else put through it’
• 'selfish vindictive creature’
• STRUCTURE:Sheila and gerald talk ‘bitterly’ and ‘cutting in’ - shows the lack of respect for one another & anger. Sheila mirrors goole's blunt questioning style.
• why on earth don't you leave us to it ‘
• ‘We didn't think you meant buckingham palace’
• ‘Engaged to  the hero of it’
• ‘Women of the town’
• ‘Wedged her into a corner with that obscene fat carcass of his’
• ‘She'd better let me take her out of there.’
• ‘Alderman Meggarty’ contrasted to ‘ A girl i know had to see him… escaped with a torn blouse’
• ‘It would be much better if sheila didn't listen to this story at all’ 
• STRUCTURE:Gerald uses language carefully to portray himself in the best possible light, as someone who was ‘saving’ Eva/Daisy instead of exploiting her 
• ‘She was claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd in a girl in her position’ ‘her position now is that she lies with a burnt-out inside on a slab’
• ‘I accept no blame for it at all’
• Sheila:‘distressed’, ‘crying quietly’, ‘Mother - stop - stop!’
• ‘I was justified’
• ‘A lot of silly nonsense’ ‘some fancy reason’
• ‘He should be made an example of’
• STRUCTURE:The tension builds up to a dramatic climax at the end of the act as the Inspector sets Mrs Birling’s trap: ‘I don’t believe it. I won’t believe it… Mother - I begged you and begged you to stop-’
• ‘I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and i threatened to make a row’
• ‘If you'd had any sense of loyalty-’ ‘I told you he did [drink]’ shows how much the family barely knew each other. 
• ‘Sheila take your mother along to the drawing room’  ‘But- I want to-’