AN INSPECTOR CALLS

• Eva Smith

  She'd had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go

  She looked young and fresh and charming ... wedged her into a corner

  As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money

  millions (X3) of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us
• Inspector

  burnt her insides out, of course!

  it's better to ask for the Earth than to take it

  millions(x3) of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us

  fire and blood and anguish
• Mr Birling

  I'm talking as a hard headed, practical man of business

  unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable!

  all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense!

  it's my duty to keep labour costs down
• Mrs Birling

  a rather cold woman, and her husband's social superior.

  it would be much better if Sheila didn't listen to any of this story at all.

  simply a piece of gross impertinence ... quite deliberate ... prejudiced

  I think she only had herself to blame
• Eric

  half shy, half assertive

  why shouldn't they try for higher wages?

  threatened to make a row

  and it doesn't alter the fact that we all helped to kill her
• Sheila

  very pleased with life, and rather excited

  but these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people!

  she was very pretty and looked as if she could take care of herself.

  (miserably) So I'm really responsible?
• Gerald

  You couldn't have done anything else.

  we're respectable citizens, not criminals

  I hate those hard eyed dough faced women

  Everything's alright now, Sheila. What about this ring?
• Gender

  Your engagement to Sheila means a tremendous lot to me. She'll make you happy, and I'm sure you'll make her happy

  it would be much better if Sheila didn't listen to any of this story at all

  I hate those hard eyed dough faced women ... quite different

  threatened to make a row
• social responsibility

  all mixed together like bees in a hive- community and all that nonsense!

  But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people!

  simply a piece of gross impertinence ... quite deliberate ... prejudiced

  millions(x3) of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us
• Class

  pink and intimate ... brighter and harder

  It's my duty to keep labour costs down

  As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money

  fire and blood and anguish
• Age

  It's my duty to keep labour costs down

  Why shouldn't they try for higher wages?

  (miserably) so I'm really responsible?

  I think she only had herself to blame.