Character Introductions

• ''Heavy-looking, rather portentous man...provincial in his speech'' about Mr Birling
• ''A rather cold woman and her husband's social superior'' about Mrs Birling
• ''Pretty girl...very pleased with life and rather excited'' about Sheila Birling
• ''Very much the easy well-bred young-man-about-town'' about Gerald Croft
• ''Not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive'' about Eric Birling
• ''I was awfully busy at the works all that time'' Gerald
• ''You'll have to get used to that, just as I had'' Mrs Birling