Gerald Croft

• Who is Gerald Croft?

  • engaged to Shelia, privileged, engimetic
• Act 1: "we're respectable citizens... suicide business."


  "suicide business"- dramatic irony, foreshadow to audience that each character personal contribution to Evas suicide
• Act 2: "wonderful fairy prince"


  "prince"-archetypal hero (only to seduce Eva)

  metaphor- Shiela mocking him

  theme of appearance
• Act 3: "everything all right now sheila. What about this ring?"


  He thinks that the inspector was a 'hoax', resolve back to acting how he was before

  Motif- ring, patriarchal control, keep Shiela trapped
• What is the authors intentions for Gerald Croft?


  Priestley wanted to critises upper class and how men wanted power from lower class.

  Foil character- Eric