Eric

• stage directions


  not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
• Eric in answer to Mr B saying it's a free country


  It's a free country! Eric - Isn't if you can't go somewhere else.
• Eric regarding Birling gaving Eva the sack


  He could have kept her on instead of throwing out
• Mrs Birling about who made Daisy pregnant

  If he refuse to marry her - in my opinion he should be compelled to - then he must at least support her
• Mrs Birling about Eric makung her pregnant


  If he didnt belong to her class and was a drunken young idler... he should be made an example of
• Eric excusing himself


  I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty
• Eric's despcription of Daisy

  I wasn't in love with her, she was pretty and a good sport
• Eric about his father


  you're not the kind of father a chap could go to when he is in trouble
• Birling's view of Eric

  Your trouble is that you have been spoilt
• Eric blaming Mrs B


  She came to you to protect me and you turned her away - yes and you killed and the child should have too - your own grandchild
• Inspector about Eric


  Just used her, for the end of a stupid drunken evening as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person
• Eric about Birling to trying to cover up


  you're beginning to pretend like nothing has really happened
• Eric about what the family has done

  It's what happened to the girl and what we did to her that matters
• Eric blaming the family


  And I say the girl is dead and we all helped to kill her
• Sheila says: you are pretending everything was just as before


  (Eric:) I'm not
• Eric about how Goole made him feel


  it frightens me too