Gerald

• 'She didn't blame me at all'


  Thinks there would have been little repercussions of his actions

  If it is true then Eva/Daisy is treated as a noble victim

  Treated as a mistress who can be discarded when suited due to her social class
• 'Because I was sorry for her'


  Shows he had genuine feelings for Daisy despite his inability to accept responsibility
• 'She was young and pretty ..and intensely grateful'


  Abuse of Eva's vulnerability and lack of knowledge

  Focused on superficial aspects like beauty

  Contrasts Sheila as Gerald is traditionally patriarchal and is looking for a girl reliant on him
• 'I wasn't telling you a complete lie'


  Attempt at being chivalrous

  Shows Gerald's desperate attempts to get himself out trouble no matter what he says
• 'Nearly any man would have'


  Daisy's need for someone to look after her appealed to Gerald's masculinity

  Feeling needed and appreciated would have been good for his ego

  She needed him more than Sheila did

  Attempts to make his involvement seem less serious by rationalising it to 'any man' would have as he tries to make it out that it isn't his fault
• 'I became one of the most important people in her life'


  Shows a power imbalance

  Gerald can only benefit in this relationship as Eva had nothing to give other than herself
• 'I didn't install her there so that I could make love to her'


  Uses business terminology when discussing the matter showing the capitalist ideologies are the most important

  Attempts to rectify the situation by saying he didn't do it just for the affair
• 'I didn't feel about her as she felt about me'


  Takes advantage of how she felt by making her his mistress despite him not having the same feeling

  Could be a lie to make himself seem a better person?
• 'She told me she'd been happier than she'd ever been before'


  Makes her moving out of the room more devastating as it was the best experience of her life

  Shows the lower classes reliance on the upper class
• 'attractive chap' 'rather too manly' 'thirty' 


  Stage directions
• 'we're respectable citizens and not criminals'


  Shows that he doesn't see the wrong in what they did even through the entire scandal by referring to them as 'respectable'