Moment 6

• (bitterly) You haven’t made it any easier for me, have you, Mother?


  Eric
• you little sneak!


  Eric
• I was rather far gone by the time we had to go


  Eric
• I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty


  Eric
• And I didn’t even remember – that’s the hellish thing.


  Eric
• (sharply) Sheila, take your mother along to the drawing-room-


  Birling
• (shocked) Eric! You stole money?


  Mrs. B
• you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble


  Eric
• you killed her – and the child she’d have had too - my child – your own grandchild - you killed them both - damn you, damn you-


  Eric (nearly at breaking point)
• (frightened) Eric, don’t – don’t-

  Sheila
• (taking charge, masterfully) Inspector
• each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it


  Inspector
• (unhappily) Look Inspector - I’d give thousands – yes, thousands-


  Birling
• there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness


  Inspector
• We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.


  Inspector
• if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.


  Inspector - last line before he walks out
• (almost threatening her) You don’t understand anything. You never did. You never even tried - you -


  Eric - to Mrs B, dashes show loss of control of emotions, simple sentences
• as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person.


  Inspector - on how Eric treated Eva
• what happens in moment 6?

  Eric’s confession and the Inspector leaves