Act 2

• The Inspector

  "We often do on the young ones. They're more impressionable"
• Gerald

  "I think Miss Birling ought to be excused…. She’s had a long and exciting day"

  Solidifies Gerald's place within the Birling family, as he is trying to make Sheila look childish in an act of misogyny and trying to cover up his actions
• Mrs Birling

  "absurd business"

  A noun phrase and a euphemism - she downplays the situation, highlighting her aristocratic callousness

  "Women of the town?"

  Same technique - referring to prostitutes. Makes Mrs Birling extremely unlikable
• Mrs Birling

  "Girls of that class-"

  The pronoun "that" makes her sound as if she is denouncing women of the working class, as if they are vulgar or criminal
• Gerald

  "I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women"

  Very misogynistic and superficial comments about women - he dislikes them if he doesn't like how they look
• Gerald/The Inspector

  "I became at once the most important person in her life - you understand?"

  Rhetorical question - this could be misogynistic, but Gerald may genuinely believe he is doing the right thing

  Although, the Inspector counters with simple sentences - "She was a woman. She was lonely." This blunt way of speaking highlights the fact that this chivalry towards women is misogynistic
• Sheila/Gerald

  "[with sharp sarcasm] You were the wonderful Fairy Prince."

  Further portrays that the concept of chivalry is just misogyny, and that Gerald indeed had an ulterior motive when installing Daisy Renton

  When Gerald admits he had feelings for Daisy, he says "Nearly any man would have done"
• Sheila

  "[She hands him the ring.]"

  Shows a great change in character for Sheila - she was once naïve and materialistic - she juxtaposes herself from the beginning
• Mr Birling/The Inspector

  "I'm a public man--"

  "Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges."
• Mrs Birling

  "That was one of the things that prejudiced me against her case." In reference to Eva Smith calling herself "Mrs Birling"
• Mrs Birling

  "Go and look for the father of the child. It's his responsibility."

  Imperative verbs

  She is removing responsibility from herself, very quickly finding someone else to blame

  Little does she know, the father is Eric - when she discovers this, she says "I don't believe it... I won't believe it..."

  The sentences have parallelism
• Mrs Birling to Sheila

  "hysterical child"
• Mrs Birling

  "Ridiculous airs" and "...scruples that were simply absurd in her position."

  Harsh sibilance, asserting Eva's character simply based on her social class