eric

• drinking habit (drown his sorrows?)
• 'half shy, half assertive'
• hubris - youth and alcohol
• naive and ignorant to remorse and regret
• taught misogyny by his father, toxic masculinity
• morality

  'my god!'
• socialist

  'why shouldn't they try for higher wages'
• exploitation

  'used her for the end of a stupid, drunken evening, as if she was an animal'
• exploitation

  'i wasn't in love with her - she was pretty and a good sport'
• gender

  'i hate these fat old tarts'
• social responsibility

  'we all helped kill her'
• social responsibility

  'insisted on giving her money to keep her going'
• 'the money is not the important thing ... it is what we did to her that matters'